When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

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.

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

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.