The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.

Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.

Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new

Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

If you're watching cable news, you are going to get a distorted picture.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.