Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.

A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.