“Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours.

I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

True love stories never have endings.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

The simplest things are often the truest.

There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

When I get there I am not going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Moses? Why weren’t you David?’ I am only going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Zuscha? Why weren’t you fully you?'”

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will – that is really naive.

People will ask me, “How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?” My answer is always: I don’t change anything about the story itself.

More data is not always the answer.

So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’

His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.