Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.

The problem with life—with a lot of things—was randomness was responsible for so many things.

Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

Does Fang have an off switch? Talon asked Vane.