Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.

All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet.

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success