“Do not hide, duck or cover when you are asked to give an answer or information that someone is not going to like. Answer the questions, even if the answers are not what others want to hear.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”

“There is always a way. Always.”

“Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.”

“I’m a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I’m also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I’m an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I’m spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I’d like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races.”

“The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I’ll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth’s curvature allows. It’s a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?”

“Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.”

“Sometimes a short cut is just a short cut to disaster.”

“May the energy of the day always call for celebration.” Barbara Botch”

“Makin banyak “kebetulan/kemiripan” ditemui, makin besar kemungkinan adanya hubungan-sebab-akibat. Dan, ketika kemiripan-kemiripan ini makin bertumpuk, maka penyelidik yang cerdas dituntut untuk berhenti (lalu merenung) dan mulai memeriksa hubungan di antara mereka.”

“I am listening to the wind, to the voice in the wind telling me to write it all down. So I do.”

“But Alonso kept smiling that smile and nothing made any sense with that smile looking you in the face. ‘Jim, don’t tell me that, you know, brother-shit. I have been through it all. Take, you know, advice. There is only one thing and that is the kick, the Now. Nothing else counts. Get yours. Get it because, you know, no one cares and they will always put you down in the end, Jim, and the only word that counts is, you know, Now. Not that foolish brother and bopping jazz, Jim. Now. Because if it all don’t go up in any, you know, twenty minutes; up, all gone; then they are going to put you down and keep you down. Now.”

“If there’s a will, there’s a way!I feel larger than LIFE–and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders….as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..”

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.”

“You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.”