You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

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.

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

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.

I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.