Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.

To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of oppostion.

Risk may bring pain, but risk also brings freedom and reward.

Fear steals your joy and kills your dreams.

The waves are rough in a sea of adversity. Learning to swim in that setting provides you with one heck of an opportunity.

To be affirming and encouraging of others requires vulnerability on your part.

Humble leaders trust more easily because they realize that the world does not rest solely on their shoulders.

Get to the next level by learning the art of investing in people.

I think forgiveness is a missing key to corporate success.

It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted.

Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and compassion, the better results you will get out of your people.

Do not love money more than yourself.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used

Each breath is transforming me into thine image.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Virtue alone is true nobility.