Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

You lose your way when you lose your why.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

A goal is not just about what you accomplish. It’s about what you become.

You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't succeed if you don't start.

Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.

Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

Raven?'Yes?'What do you believe in?'I believe in - finding out!

In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in.

As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.