One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones