The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen