Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you.[…]You turn the page and there is nothing.

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Islam has always been part of America

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.