All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...

For every ten vampires who are happy being monsters, there's always one sad-sack who misses the sunrise.

... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.

I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.

We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy.

People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.