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

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.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

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.

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

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.