Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.

Indeed, these people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.