The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.