“You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it’s a habit. I always say, ‘Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.’ There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.”

However, sticking with that goal in mind, you could make the resolution action-oriented by saying ‘get up 30 minutes earlier every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and do a 20-minute workout at home before work.’ Now you have an actionable path on how to achieve your goal.

You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Writers don’t need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

You can’t rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don’t love Jecca. I don’t love Fanboy. But… God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won’t they. I don’t love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.

You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.

You need a team that speaks your language.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.