There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

In a balanced organization working towards a common objective there is success.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is therefore a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

If there's no fire there's no scream. If there's no scream then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

If there is any secret to my success I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel and therefore I think my readers care about them.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Well you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Like everybody I have invested in things that have gone bad because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.