The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

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

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.