Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill ‘em!

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

Theres nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. Its bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back.

I will persist until I succeed!

Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.