There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.