What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

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.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?

He makes me feel like that. Like flying.