My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.