The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.
My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.