“While women may fake orgasms, men fake finances.”

“If you do not know where you stand within yourself, where does that leave you? When you stand centered in your own space, it will become clearer what your choices are and which ones to make.”

“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It is how we use them that counts.”

“Getting started, keeping going, getting started again--in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

“The number one law of money is this: Power attracts money, but powerlessness repels it.  Money on its own cannot do anything without you.”

“You can never solve a financial problem with money. The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.”

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside.”

“If price is the best thing about something, you should not buy it. Ever.”

“People that are successful are able to see what success is. They are able to define it in their mind's eye.”

“People that are successful have a strategy from getting where they are to that success. The difference between goals and dreams is a timeline. "Someday" is not a day of the week. You have to work for what you want; not for what you don't want—and I mean every day.”

“The universe rewards action. Successful people take action towards a known outcome. You can't think about it. You have to do it—and you don't do it for a week or a month. You do it until.  Until you get what you want. ”

“Winners do things losers don't want to do.  Winners are willing to take a risk—they're not reckless, but they're willing to take a risk.  And the biggest risk of all is admitting that what you have is not what you want.”

“The defining characteristic of every successful person I've seen: They have passion.”

“Multitasking is the ruination to perfection.”

“Every 'no' leads you that much closer to a 'yes'.”

“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

“As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”