We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

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.

The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.

Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.