Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

My religion is no way of knowing me.

Always start your day with positive thoughts and attitude of gratitude.

If someone is trying to share a laugh and you personally do not find it funny, then just move on and leave it alone. Do not steal someone else’s humor.

A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.