Sonya, as a scientist, it's never just about the logistics of life. One must always be optimistic, or else you'll never discover or learn anything new. Though of course, you might also find that such a mentality should never be restricted to such an occupation as mine.

If chasing a pipe dream means securing our freedom, then so be it.

There are a wide variety of freedoms; whether if it's to break away from drug addiction or government suppression. On a general scale, the one element all these types of freedoms share is the need to survive - however that may be.

I believe that anytime someone messes with the mind, they mess with the soul. Historically they go hand-in-hand, for a long time ago, the word "mind" was another word for "soul". Contextually, people might not see the relationship between the mind and such events from the past and present, but there is a connection. They all involved tampering of the value of the mind.

I'm not sure if there's truly a name for this kind of place aside from it being anything but remarkable.

It’s all short, sweet and simple, but it’s all a moment’s worth.

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren’t.

I'm human. Isn't it obvious?

If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we're ashamed of our bodies as to where it's a law to wear fabrics, we destroy natural civilizations for artificial ones, and despite being of the same species, we always look past that aspect and question, judge, hurt and kill each other over what makes us different.

...sometimes when you are lost for direction, you are open to a new way of seeing.

Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.

No one can ever foresee the future Sonya. You can only judge what's up ahead based on the conditions of the present. Remember that.

America is a great country. We have a lot to be proud of, and a lot to look forward to being proud of. But let's not ever forget to look back into the past, learn from it, and embrace it, for to deny the past is a dark path to go down.

Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin.

Sometimes, when you really want to get to know a person but have boundaries that prevent you from doing so, you learn about them as much as you can.

It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.

A chair can be more valuable in memories than, say, a precious gem. A gem could have no stories to share; no lives altered or changed in the slightest. It could remain buried beneath the earth for all we know and never have any memory to embody. A chair could transcend time and generations; from the people who sat in it and onlookers. It's all about considering what stories could be told if they had voices of their own.

I know what you might think; that being alone is a sign of loneliness. But the way I see it, sometimes being alone serves as a period of insight as to who you really are. Think about it.

Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.

Risk the risks.

We all have our own rhythms to walk to.

How cinematic of an entrance that was.

Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can't just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.

I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.

Genres are what holds each story together and help it along, but in no way should it ever be treated as a boundary, especially for a reader. If I’ve only read science fiction books, I would probably consider myself mad.

To be ordinary is a choice, for everyone has it in them to become extraordinary.

It was easy to conclude: The night was young and alive, in its ever so subtle way.

Time may be a man-made illusion, but it was one that worked at one's inconvenience. When one is urging time to move forward, it will resist and move slowly. When one wants time to go by slower than need be, it goes by on a whim. The only instance where time is at a medium pace is when time isn't even acknowledged at all as an essence to everyday existence.

I used to think that distance makes the heart grow fonder, but I guess it’s more so of a case-by-case thing when I look at it now. It especially doesn’t help when most of the time, when forced to reckon with the realities of things, you have your illusions occupying you.

Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.

I didn't put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right push to be able to really see them.

It was all in the means of expressing himself without anyone having to ever understand it.

I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.

They're funny things, legacies are. They can make a person's good-doings extend beyond his or her lifetime, and burden everyone else around who's related to live up to or better it. But they're always very important to maintain to the best of one's ability because that's as close to immortality one can get.