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

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.

For every excuse that you've ever had or came up with of why you can't or couldn't, there's someone who's had that same excuse or even worse, but found a way and did

I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.

Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

Love makes me feel vulnerable.

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.