"I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years."

“Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.”

“South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.”

“Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.”

“I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.58, Random House

“And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.”

“Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.”

Source : Sidney Sheldon (2005). “The other side of me”

“One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.”

“Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.”

Source : Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.131, Harvard Business Press