The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the gut, because your mind simply doesn't have as much time to justify an easier way to do things.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong