The best use anyone can make of any day is to enjoy it - and then spread that joy to others.

The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon.

Giving back or giving forward is the one true law of marketing.

All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans.

Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

Do something every day to market each of your books for three years.

The moon was barely visible behind the pillows of clouds. Overhead, the lights caught the drizzle in a slow-motion light show.

A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.

We use to think that we’ll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

I'd do a lot of things to protect you.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.