Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Custom makes monsters of us all.

No art should be fashionable.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.