If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

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.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Friends could be more influential than spouses. Hence selection should be based on attitude not apparel, on outcome not outlook, on personal beliefs not parental background.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

In no other sport must the spectator move.

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.