I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.

You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.

Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.