When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.