“Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.”
"When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible."
- Salman Rushdie
Hope
"Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things–childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves–that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers."
- Salman Rushdie
Inspiration
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
- Salman Rushdie
Creativity
"Writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things – childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves – that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers."
- Salman Rushdie
Reflection
"For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall."
- Salman Rushdie
Philosophy
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage