Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain.

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

There is nothing we could ever do to make God love us more

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.