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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Be smart, but never show it.

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Writing is a craft not an art.