A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Star in the sky is useless to the world, Star on the stage makes the difference to the world.

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.

Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.