“We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply stop.”

“Life. Its about adventure, of having a dream and following it.”

“Eventually, after much dreaming, the dream no longer suffices. You have to physically be there.”

“We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than exist.”

“Dive deep and make your discovery.”

“There comes a time when you just have to say, No! to the requests and to the system.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what...”

“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.”

“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might...”

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have...”

“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got ...”

“Sacred soul has indomitable strength.”

“In this culture, cultivating unconditional self-acceptance truly is radical.”

“Your medal is there already in your heart, in how you think, feel and act toward yourself.”

“It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.”