Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.