Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

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

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.

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 fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.