And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo.The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow.

Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.

Your imaginations are not beyond creation, only God's imaginations exceeds all creation.

Look twice before you leap.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.