Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.