I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
As his raft skimmed over the water, taking him back to the mortal world, he understood a line from the Prophecy better-an oath to keep with a final breath. He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.
I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.