We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Head up, stay strong. Fake a smile, move on.

There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, I must, then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Do one thing at a time and while doing it, put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

I was the shyest human ever born, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!