I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

A success unshared is a failure.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

My biggest regret is that I didn't listen to my intuition as it was yelling at me.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.