Magic things are fond of deceptions.
Imitation can be commercial suicide.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature. . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz. , that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw his water eyes.
Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.