Don't listen to what people tell you, there are always doubters. Work hard, believe in yourself, and believe in your ability and just work hard.
The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine people he has got in his network.
The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.
I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.
I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.
Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
Dont throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they’ve got their own agendas.
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.
Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?
There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.
The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.
Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.
Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.
