Michael Korda

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks and embracing every possibility.

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

There is no dream you can’t achieve. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.