Pretty Words On Pretty Paper

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time

I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.