The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don’t want to read.
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.