“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”

“Everyone is jealous of what you got, but no one is jealous of how you got it”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Habit is the best of all servants, or the worst of all masters.”

“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright ...”

“The first wealth is health”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

“If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that vo...”

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”

“Difficulties break some men but make others”