Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft