If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

To earn more, you must learn more.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

You can't fight hearts and minds with money.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.