There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.

We all come into and go out of this world in the same way. The Destination is the same. The difference is the Journey. Some Enjoy it, some Don't !

Life is actually a self made web of fate.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Every writer has to write his speech.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.