Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

Your prayers for others and the universe make a difference!

It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live and it's phenomenally powerful.

Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.

It's a great time to be alive.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

It’s easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban.