Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.

Every moment you lose your temper, you lose a moment of opportunity to love.

Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.

The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends but he grieveth the less.

The more I give, the more I get.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.