If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.

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.

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.