Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.

He that will take the bird, must not skare it.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.