Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Your coming to Christ is not for you to fill up the seats or to take part in rites

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.

It takes more than clicking like for a good cause to change the world.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

Look around you! This is where the path of hatred has brought us.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.