Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

Life can sometime be very hard for us and we feel that as if we are drowning in our problems. when we feel this way we only need to look up and see that there is a hand reaching out to save us.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.