Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.

The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.