If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.