Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

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.

If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Some people have constipation of the brain but their mouth has the runs.

Everyone is giving something. Everyone is giving what has their heart. What I'm giving you is what has my heart.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.