Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience

No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.