"I never have frustrations. The reason is..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.”

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.”

“Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward”

“Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.”

“In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.”

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

“It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.”

“I failed so therefore I succeed.”