Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

There's something amazing about humor and laughter. It broadens your perspective.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

Believe in your potential, not your past.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

Believe it or not, Twitter calms me down. I enjoy interacting with people.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.