The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind.

Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength it just gives loneliness.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

What is love? Love to me is god.