People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily

“There are many people who aren’t experiencing victory today because they are focused on yesterday. But” 

People have to grow by skillful frustrations, otherwise they have no incentive to develop their own means and ways of coping with the world.

“Common people with uncommon goals who make an uncommon commitment can help an uncommon number of people who can also lead other common people to do uncommon things. Develop your potential to the full. And as you do, lead others in developing theirs. Be all you can be. Then help someone else be all they can be.” 

“Millions of people miss today because either they refuse to let go of the past or they worry about the future.” 

“80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.” 

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.” 

People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

“People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.” 

“She treated him with the casual kindness usually reserved for other people's pets.” 

“I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.” 

“Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.” 

“There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It’s the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that’s why they get noticed.” 

“The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.” 

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.” 

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.” 

“Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;” 

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” 

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” 

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.