To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

If I can take it, I can make it.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Never give up, no matter what.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

Any of these moments, you can turn it all around.

A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.

I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.