You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest.

Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

My wife always tells people, 'He's not going to be able run to for anything because I'm not going to let him start a campaign.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.