The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly.

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.