The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

My appearance is talking and I like what it is saying.

To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear.

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve.

She remembered who she wasand the game changed.

There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.

I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.