“That person staring back at you when you look in the mirror... that's your competition.”

“You cannot win at that which you never start.”

“You never know what's going to inspire you, until suddenly it does.”

“Every great thing that's ever been achieved started with the belief that it could be.”

“Accept no limitations and you'll have no limitations.”

“If the sun isn't shining where you are, be the sunshine where you are.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move ag...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

“Those who follow the flock, eat the shit, not the grass.”

“There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or...”

“Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.”