A goal is a dream with a deadline.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

Gossip is nature's telephone.