The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Stories shape the world.

A man can not return anything except what is full.

How much does he lack himself who must have many things?

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

I never thought I was cute, ever.

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.