Vanna Bonta Quotes

"To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, its bragging."

"It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization."

"Society's indolent, mediocre, or even criminal are not hated with daily public fury reserved for those who accomplish and achieve."

"Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity."

"Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence."

"The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility."

"Slander is the tool of cowards."

"Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it."

"A writer should not subject one's self to mediocrities posing as experts, such as semi-pro so-called writers, editors or critics dedicated to attacking artists. If these so-called authorities were any good, they'd be inspiring readers instead."

"Everything solid was first an idea."

"There's a point for things we create where they don't belong to us anymore; when others love them, they belong to the world."

"Patience is being friends with Time."

"People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon."

"Slander is the only way some have of feeling close to accomplishment."

"When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome."

"Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?"

"When ridicule is shrill, remember people only bother to belittle something they perceive big enough to fear."

"The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others."

"Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel."

"There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy."