Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.

Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

I stay cool, and dig all jive,That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized...

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what...

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any num...

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact...

Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the rea...

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...