To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.