"I think it's cool to give people encouragement."

“Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.”

“I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.”

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

“Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.”

“Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.”

“I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.”

“The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.”

Source : Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

“Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.”

“You need contradictions to make an ideal.”