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

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

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 biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.