Life is about learning to fly, when everyone says you will fall.

Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

‪Fear should stop you for a moment so you can determine whether you're willing to sacrifice something to get you want.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't.

Behind every dreamer stands an army full of true believers.

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

– Some people forget, do you know – they forget what it is like to be young, to feel things ruthlessly, terribly. If you forget that much of life, well, I don’t know.

We can assume that those who ‘have it all’ and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.

I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with any one who tries to steal my time.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.