“Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasnt coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen...”

“Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.”

“You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.”

“Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but...”

“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing moreplus, I knew ...”

“Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.”

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”

“Everything is possible in this world so don't fear anything”

“Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.”

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”

“We only have one life (unless youre a cat or a Buddhist) and its often dictated to us by what society tells us we should do. So we normalize and accept the paradox. We glamorize busy, but long to t...”

“The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.”