I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around, you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

Since the very first day I started at Team New Zealand I have never been particularly happy with the boat, no matter what we did to it.

Having the opportunity to get up and start the day off on the right foot by playing hockey, it's great. I think it will help all of us academically as well. Now we have a little time between 7-10 p.m. to study or socialize. Before, our time, we didn't have a whole lot of it.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go ... Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.