Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Roses have thorns, ’ we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending beds of fragile roses-with heart full of scars

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love, ' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.