S.L. Wallace Quotes

The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.

You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

All I'm armed with is research.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.

There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world