See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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.

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

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.

If you can’t move a mountain by faith, move it by carrying away stone by stone.

there is only one true heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it

If we could see the beauty and miracle of transformation that happens to us every second, we would never complain again.

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

Love is to be cherished because you're lucky to feel it even once in your life.

I don't know anyone my age.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am.

Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.