If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.