Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.

Impossible is just an opinion.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

We don’t choose to be role models; we are chosen. Our only choice is whether to be a good role model or a bad one.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

We are our choices.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.