The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I must serve the Great Master, God.

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.