The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
All thinking men are atheists.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.