Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they’ve done, and that taking a human life is wrong.

The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

I have no ill feelings for nobody, I wish everybody the best, and I'm cool with everybody.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense