Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.