"There's something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can't see everything."

“From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.”

“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

“The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.”

“Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

“What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.”

“But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.”

“Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the part where I faint in fear?" Luther bit his lip. "He might also accept falling to your knees and holding your hands in humble supplication. Makes it easier for him to slap the cuffs on.”

“you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.”