Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don’t end up being someone you….

There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accompl….

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice..

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon.

We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you..

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in..

The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes you stronger. It just helps you get used t….

A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like to suggest ….

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me..

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust..

We've all lost something along the way..

Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're ….

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot. But they’re bo….

I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Ha….

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my lif….

I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention….

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure..

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room ….

Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss..

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines..

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed….