Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.

But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.