Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

My father was one of ten children.

all nothing's only our hugest home; the most who die, the more we live

Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.