If you believe you will succeed, there is always a chance you might. But if you believe that you will fail, then you will always fail. Never allow yourself to lose before you begin.

But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

My passion is to see ordinary believers receive extraordinary answers to their prayers.

Well, nobody's perfect.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.