Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Your mind believes what you tell it.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

We are in this fairyland on sufferance

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison

The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.

Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

The Exploitation of Religion Must Be Opposed.