If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.

If nobody else will give you a platform, build your own!

Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.

BE the music, DO the math, HAVE the dream!

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Books are the curse of the human race.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Hate poisons your life.