Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes Rocky work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

J. Michael Straczynski

Categorized in : Profound Journey Fighting

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.

J. Michael Straczynski

jobs believe country

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

J. Michael Straczynski

voice guarantees trying

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

J. Michael Straczynski

awful life thinking

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

wisdom time past

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

J. Michael Straczynski

passion kids thinking

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

J. Michael Straczynski

fairs terrible happens

I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance in dating: 'Will you go out with me?' Six words. 'I really care for you.' Five words. 'You matter to me' Four words. 'I love you.' Three words. 'Marry me.' Two words. Well, what's left? What's the one most important and intimate word you can ever say to somebody?

J. Michael Straczynski

love-you goodbye life

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

J. Michael Straczynski

adversity hero believe

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

J. Michael Straczynski

rewards heart joy

When in doubt, blow something up.

J. Michael Straczynski

blow writing funny

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

J. Michael Straczynski

immortality writing long

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski

fighting dream war

There can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.

J. Michael Straczynski

new-beginnings people

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski

learning army freedom

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

J. Michael Straczynski

delusion wells might

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

J. Michael Straczynski

use world firsts

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

J. Michael Straczynski

tears choices ideas

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

J. Michael Straczynski

dallas world ideas

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J. Michael Straczynski

two-sides quality communication

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

J. Michael Straczynski

shoes reason feet