Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

The strength is given to me by the recognition I don't waste it in vain.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

The future belongs to the free.

Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless picture, and its pall of sadness can begin to weigh you down.

Get your personal needs met, once and for all; if you have unmet needs, you'll attract others in the same position.