Fly and you will catch the swallow.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

We learn by teaching.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Live in peace with all people.

We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

In today's society, the forces against you are heavy against you. The whole goal is to get knowledge of yourself, but people are so far from themselves that they don't believe themselves.

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

To achieve more and better results, more resourcefulness is as important as more resources.

I started tennis around age 2.