Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Everything you can imagine is real.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.