Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

How a person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Strong leaders cannot tolerate weak leaders above them.

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.