"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."