To share sorrow with a friend or loved one makes sorrow irrelevant and the meaning of life and love the relevant happening.

They say love is blind. I say no, as it is those in love who are the blind ones. For if they just open their eyes they will see that true happiness is just a whisper away and that love is truly the fairytale they seek.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish-if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.