I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.

Optimism is true moral courage.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

-- Babe Ruth

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

-- Jackie Robinson

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

-- Ernest Hemingway

One need not be afraid of anyone. If one fears someone, it is because one has given that person power over oneself.

-- Hermann Hesse

Imagination rules the world.

-- Napoleon

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

-- Carl von Clausewitz