When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.