"I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive."

“Being willing makes you able.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.28, Penguin

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”

“Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.145

“Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 10, 2013

“We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.”

“I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.”

“We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.”

Source : Isabel Colegate (1984). “Three Novels: 2”, Viking Adult

“I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and tried to get some impression of them, but as always when you write fiction, even if you have completely fictitious characters, you start by thinking of what is plausible, what would they say, what would they be likely to do, what would they be likely to think. At some point, if it is every going to come to life, the characters seem to take over and start speaking themselves, and it happened with [COPENHAGEN].”