Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media... But the internet is becoming the umbrella.

As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.

What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.

When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.