We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

There is no such thing as predestined. Human destiny in the human world is determined by none but the humans.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine...

I may not understand your situation but I understand hurt

It seemed like an interesting movie [Independence Day], and I thought I had a take on the part that was going to be unique. That doesn't happen to me very often.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.