If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.