Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.

I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

Celebrate true friends. They are a part of you that always sparkles.

Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.

Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It was over before I even had a chance.

Don’t you have someone else to harass? People to eat?”“Nope. You’re at the top of my list.”“Well, aren’t I special?

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.