Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

The great appear great to us.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

There is no need to worry about whether you are capable of manifesting what you want. The truth is, the universe already is providing you exactly what you have asked.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

Never build yourself up by tearing another down.

. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!