"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”

“You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.”

Source : Lurlene McDaniel (1992). “A Time to Die”, Laurel Leaf

“It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out.”

Source : "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.

“I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.”

“The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.”

“If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.162, A&C Black

“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.”

Source : "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

“I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!”