The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

An organization has worth when its movement has a tangible goal

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.

It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.

The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

The closer you get to your ultimate customer, the more you learn about your business.