Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.