“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”

“Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.”

“Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.”

“The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.”

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.”

“Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”

“I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”