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

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded

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.