Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.