More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.