"I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them."
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"God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin."
"Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?"
"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."
"I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith."
"What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind."
"I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason."
"One picture is worth a thousand words"
"My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life."
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
"May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details."
"To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity."
"The English never draw a line without blurring it."
"Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk."
"To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection."
"The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius."
"Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one."
"A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age."
"Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"
"What else is nature but God?"