Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

You need to believe in your passion, no matter how stupid or insane that might make you look to the rest of the world.

Being awesome really comes down to having confidence.

What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.

Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

The best thing about money is not worrying about money.

To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got.

Joy brings smiles on our faces, it brings power, peace and sound mind.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.

If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?