Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being.

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.