Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" “But no living man am I!

To make a million, start with $900,000.

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.