No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Sometimes writing is like playing with fire… like trying to tame an uncontrollable beast.

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I hope they understand that I really understand That they don't understand

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.