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

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.

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.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Have firm ideas of a particular life changes you wish to put into action.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

I think it's great to use fashion to develop your personality and express who you really are.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.