The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

How can we explain such inclinations? They are forces within us that come from a deeper place than conscious words can express.They draw us to certain experiences and away from others.

This thing I feel for you... I've never felt like this about anyone, Tegan.

Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

I want nothing from love, in short, but love.

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.