Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.

Seize the moments that are before you instead of planning for future moments that get lost in the abyss of time.

Perfecting your character isn’t a marathon, a race, or a competition. It can only be won in stride with daily motivation.

When you’re faced with a choice, choose to inspire, choose to empower, choose to stand for those who have lost the will to stand for themselves.

A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.

I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great?

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.