World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.

To create is to be divine.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.

Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

I am always on the women's side.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.