The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.