There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Fear in the absence of certainty can inspire men to do unimaginable things.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.