Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

When someone asks me about my diet I feel terrible saying that I don't really have one.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

I need to talk to Clarisse," Annabeth said. I stared at her as if she'd just said "I need to eat a large, smelly boot." "What for?