There is always, always, always something to write about.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

Now my fans are older and they understand how to appreciate me the same way I appreciate them for being there for me.

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money.