A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

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

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

O' beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king.

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.