"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

“I choose to live, not just exist.”

Source : "Metallica's James Hetfield Calls Rehab Challenging, Gratifying" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. February 21, 2002.

“Matter is never without Spirit. Spirit is never without Matter.”

“Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

“Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.”

“Never apologize for your cooking.”

“There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2014). “Now I'll Tell You Everything”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.”

“Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net