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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.
The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.
In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.
99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it.
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.
It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.
There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.
People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor
I really believe in sharing my story to improve social behaviors in the nation.
Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.
I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.
You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.
I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.
Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.