You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.

I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

Laugh about the past and dream about the future.