Prosperity makes few friends.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.

Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.