My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.

Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.