Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

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.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.