Exercising your talents, passion, sense of judgment, and making a difference while doing something you love is the essence of life.

A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.

Being in tune to one's Will and working accordingly shears the malaise of inauthenticity.

Professional happiness is the tonic of longevity.

When we all play our part the world will run as designed. Do your part and do it now!

Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.

The field of financial innovation, without rules that tie it to human productive output will be the cause of the next revolution.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.

The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.