...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership.

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

We endure every adversity by grace.

I would have killed myself years ago if it weren't for the fact that I’m pretty sure death is the only thing more terrible than life.

Then this is how you do it, ’ and kissed her slowly, letting time fade away. And he couldn’t remember any other kiss that felt quite the same.

Life can become difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We cant express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.