What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

You need to believe in your passion, no matter how stupid or insane that might make you look to the rest of the world.

Being awesome really comes down to having confidence.

Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

The best thing about money is not worrying about money.

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got.

The Scriptures are the pearls of great words.

Desire creates its own object.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.