Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things make each of us who we are.” Using the blanket, he rubbed his hair. “You lose that in captivity, lose yourself, and that loss saps your capacity for joy. I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope. You know what I mean?” He looked at each of them, but no one answered. “Live with it long enough and the prison stops being the walls or the guards. Instead, it’s the fear you can’t survive on your own, the belief you aren’t as capable, or as worthy, as others. I think everyone has the capacity to do great things, to rise above their everyday lives; they just need a little push now and then.


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MICHAEL J. ANDERSON
I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or wh...
MICHAEL J. FOX
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to ...
MICHAEL J. FOX
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multipl...
MICHAEL J. BEHE
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't mat...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Touch passion when it comes your way...It
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development...
MICHAEL J. GELB
Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pas...
MICHAEL J. GELB
Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.
MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY
The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot acco...
MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
MICHAEL J. FOX
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
MICHAEL J. GELB
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no gre...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless...
MICHAEL J. FOX
If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted i...
MICHAEL J. TUCKER
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is G...
MICHAEL J. FOX
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is...
MICHAEL J. FOX
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is wh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Vo...
MICHAEL J. FOX
We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a di...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other all...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long a...
MICHAEL J. FOX
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student o...
MICHAEL J. FOX
The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can se...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO
I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
J. MICHAEL BISHOP
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy...
MICHAEL J. FOX
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we belie...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's ju...
MICHAEL J. FOX
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
MICHAEL J. FOX
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
MICHAEL J. FOX
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, i...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP
When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, st...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United S...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR
Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, o...
MICHAEL J. COHEN
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX
Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
MICHAEL J. COHEN
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any a...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP
Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's pos...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless i...
MICHAEL J. FOX
Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What mak...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others......
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Pity is a benign form of abuse.
MICHAEL J. FOX
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
MICHAEL J. FOX
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient...
MICHAEL J. FOX
After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going...
MICHAEL J. FOX
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can mak...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR
What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological current...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te...
MICHAEL J. FOX
I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going...
MICHAEL J. FOX
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is...
MICHAEL J FOX
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd ...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR
If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those f...
MICHAEL J. FOX
I think there's a god and I know it's not me.
MICHAEL J. FOX
There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end...
MICHAEL J. FOX
When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an opt...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act...
MICHAEL J. FOX