Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.

Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.

Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

If you look at the top 10 enterprise software companies, a lot of them are important but irrelevant companies. It's really important to be relevant and important.

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.