What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

God is my safety.

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

We're still in this position where we haven't made a lot of decisions yet.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

There are nearly 1 million Americans who visit the emergency room each year because of dental pain at a cost that runs into the hundreds of millions.