"Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means"

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

Source : Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

“Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.”

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

“You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.”

“Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.”

“My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.”

“Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.”

Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library