Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

Never ask people about your work.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Money is the root of all good.