Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.