Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Write til your fingers bleed.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Leadership can mean defiance.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

Inspire someone today. Your action can change that person’s life forever.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.