Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.

Joy is innermost peace.

Aspirations forms the plot of success.

I am a very romantic person, and I love 'love' - however cheesy that sounds!

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.