Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Big egos have little ears.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

How could you renew your mind, if you never read?

As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.

Nobody had been more surprised than Jack to discover that when he was happy, he wanted to make others happy. What a soggy lot of rubbish, but there you had it.

You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally.

The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?