The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder.""A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, " Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision.

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.