The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

There is always room at the top.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.