Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

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.

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.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.