Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I can do whatever I want.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.