Before you make the key, study the lock.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.

I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.