Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know.

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work.