It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

I'm confident in the American people.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.