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.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

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

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

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...

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.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.