Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

The Mirror Prayer I see you man in the mirror. I see you and raise you. I will be better today than you were yesterday, and tomorrow you will be better than I was today.

Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.

Why did everything feel like saying good-bye?

China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.