Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Freedom and independence form my character.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.