You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea