When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

Being number two sucks.

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.