Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Those who are loving become beloved.

Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you will come out unscathed.

When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

My greatest fear is failure.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

Writing novels is the most exciting