Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.