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

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 freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

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

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.

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