"Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it."

“I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?”

“It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me”

“Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.”

“See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.”

“I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

“I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.”

Source : Louis Bayard (2009). “The Black Tower: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

“If you always say no, you'll never say yes.”

“It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.”