When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.--old Indian saying

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.--John Cheever

Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.--Richard Bach

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.--Japanese proverb

Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart. The beauty that forms in your mind. The loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.--James Allen

The young do not know enough to be prudent; and, therefore, they attempt the impossible--and achieve it, generation after generation.--Pearl S. Buck

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.--Linda Ellerbee

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true of false test?" Then a voice comes to me out of the dark, and says, "We hate to tell you this, but life is a thousand word essay."--Charlie Brown

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.--Walt Disney

Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.--William J. Toms

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.--Winnie the Pooh

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.--Howard Hughes

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.--Anne Frank

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.--Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind

Guys are the brutes of God's creation, and girls are the fruits.--Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray

Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.--Homer Simpson

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.--F. Scott Fitzgerald

I get tired of people waiting for us to go away. We're not going away, man. We're growing and changing and making music that is real and honest. We're not a machine. We're artists. As long as we continue to remain true to who we are, we have a fair shot at being heard. That's all we've ever really wanted: to be heard.--Justin Timberlake, about *NSYNC