The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

The church is God’s elect that God wants to raise in the country to give hope to everyone

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

My job is to make you think what you think is your businessRjS

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.