Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Christianity is a journey not a destination

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

The universe looks more and more like a great thought rather than a great machine.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.