When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

Focusing on negative matters always leaves one's positive inner-self unattended.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.