Author Quotes

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

It hurts because it matters.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams larger than your doubts.

There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.

I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Believe in yourself and all that you are.

Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.