"Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will."

“Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.”

“Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.”

“Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.”

“A seed is like a little girl: it can look small and worthless, but if you treat it well then it will grow beautiful.”

Source : Somaly Mam (2008). “The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The story of a Cambodian heroine.”, p.147, Spiegel & Grau

“If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.”

Source : Bill Knott (1968). “The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans”

“Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.”

“There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative.”