Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.

I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.