I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

The great appear great to us.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.

What I want does exist if I dare to find it.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

When in doubt, resort to animation.

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.