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"As people we will always be one. As a person we will forever be different."

Franko Pestana

"Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated."

Bits & Pieces Magazine

"Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what one is saying."

John Updike

"Our Western culture regards practice as useful because 'practice makes perfect.' We prefer the Eastern concept: Practice makes different."

William & Sherilyn Cormier

"Anyone who has written a million words has no writing problem."

Paul Roberts

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein

"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."

Friedrich Schlegel

"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

Vida D. Scudder

"It's who I am that makes me special, not what I can do. Another person's accomplishment never diminishes my own."

Lawrence Block

"Your happiness has to be within yourself, and that's what attracts people to you."

Sally Jesse Rafayel

"If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always in the now."

Willie Nelson

"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."

Fortune cookie

"It's never too late to become what you might have been."

George Eliot

"Time is the substance from which I am made.... Time is a river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that devours me, but I am the fire."

Jorge Luis Borges

"If any one faculty may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory."

Jane Austen

"Imagination is stronger than will power....When the will and the imagination are in conflict, it's always the imagination that wins."

Jose Silva

"Aerialists know that to look down is to fall. Writers know it too."

Joan Didion

"Doing something better than you've ever done it before is very satisfying."

Bill Gates

"Don't let anybody tell you you're wasting your time when you're gazing into space. There's no other way to conceive an imaginary world."

Stephen Vizinezey

"As you believe, so shall you do."

Star Trek, "And the Children Shall Lead"

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time, to have such things about us."

Iris Murdoch

"Everything you do is an investment in more of the same."

Alan Cohen