Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas." -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

The best way to discredit something is to come with a better way of doing that thing.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.

I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.

Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.