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

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

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.

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.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

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

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