The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

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.

How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way?

It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver

My Epitaph:THIS is Plan B

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.