This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, its seems, begins where yours left off.
-Alexandre Dumas
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
-Scott Turow
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
-Hermann Hesse