Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.