How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Your death, strange human. I mean, your injury. No murder, just a little maiming. So I can leave. Maiming’s not so bad.

Being a writer makes you immortal.

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.