Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.

Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.

Give out what you most want to come back.

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.