Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.