"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there's not hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

-Junot Diaz

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." -Sydney Smith

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" Then the fates will know you as Albert Mondego the man!" -The Count Of Monte Cristo

"Obstacles are put in your way to see if what you want is worth fighting for."