First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

When I met you last night baby Before you opened up your gap I had respect for ya lady But now I take it all back

Political elections are not life and death.

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.