it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.