When I have opportunity to walk, I never miss it.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

— Stephen King

Wherever you are, you have to work for your living.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

— W.P. Kinsella

You cannot tell how it is, until you experience it.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough grace for each day task.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough to create what you want.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You have no control over what happens to you! You can only pray for grace and strength to endure any situation.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.

— Lailah Gifty Akita