"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."

"Life isn't all about how rich, 'successful' or even intelligent you are, it's all about what impact(s): you've made; you're making or that which is glaringly evident you are going to make."

"I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame."