Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
. . . he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. . . The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music.
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.