Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

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.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too much.

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.

There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.

The use of riches is better than their possession.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare