You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful and positive.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!