The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

The mind map will change your life.

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

To start speaking my language start reading what I read... start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened.

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Aquamen is unique in the sense that he does it without ego. He doesn't always have to be right. He's made a lot of mistakes, and he really takes those to heart.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

One writes to find words' meanings.