Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity.

He didn't blame James for falling in love with her, she was a radiant, deserving woman. He knew, however, that love only did one thing. It got in the way.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

I'd love to do some theater.

One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

I found my voice in books.

It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.