Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

If you want to be successful, you are going to have to deal with pressure.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.

Oh, I just think that a neat house is the sign of a boring person, that's all. And I don't really like to associate with boring people if I can help it.

Working conditions at the computer and long seated sessions can lead to weakness and pronounced posture problems.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.