“If you want something better for your life, you've got to start by believing you deserve it.”

“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”

“It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have!”

“Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.”

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence."(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)”

“You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.”

“Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?A: One wishes to create characters who will speak directly to the minds of comparative literature professors and intelligent book reviewers.”