I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens.

In order to survive, I came up with a five-step secret to getting it all done. If you're busy too, feel free to use it:1. Admit that you can't possibly get it all done.

Intentions are ambitious liars.

A dream you don’t have to fight for isn’t a dream—it’s a nap. One changes your afternoon. The other changes your world. Keep fighting.

I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

Strategy is about heading North while keeping an eye on the South.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.