Resolve to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control. The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.