Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

People say how do you live alone? My response-I have time for myself not for loneliness...

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

Literature is the expression of society.

They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to the Spearmint Rhino.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind me.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.