You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.

So what if he is not part of my present but he is in my future, I know. And everyday I'm going a step closer to my future, to him.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.

Rocks do not have dreams and that's why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams!

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.