The more prepared you are, the less pressure you feel.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.

I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.