Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.