You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

Questions open the mind answers shut it down.

I love animals, especially with barbeque sauce.

I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.