Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love.

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.