I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.

Today, the average family has enough financial reserves to keep going for about three weeks. That's it.

And financial problems are exactly the same thing. You're humiliated. You're ashamed. You're embarrassed about telling anyone that you are suffering financial difficulties.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different, ' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was.

London is a roost for every bird.

No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.