Personal qualities are much more important than qualifications.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

Let yourself daydream sometimes... Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.