People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Simple works, complex fails.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10, 000 hours to become world-class at.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

Leadership is about movement and growth.

I am content when writing short stories.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The mainstream is always under attack.

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.