The day we stop learning is the day we die.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The greatest obstacle to your progress and growth is often your unwillingness to pay the necessary price through sacrifice.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. "Anything, " I whispered back.

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.