We feel our lives are worth living after we discover something worth dying for.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Lord if you can't make me thin - can you make all my friends fat?

I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.

I think there is a way to do things right to tread lightly on the world

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.

He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony.