I don't believe in fate.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.