Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.

No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

People who have stuck to their vision and mission no matter what. They inspire me. The people who wake up to non-glamorous lives to continue pushing to do what God has called them to do.

Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.