An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.