You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Writing is the best anti-depressant.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.

Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.