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"It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required."

"Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience."

"Be the energy you want others to absorb."

"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."

"Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials."

"As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself."

"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."

"When is now."

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"The best writing speaks when the heart whispers."

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

"Love is written by the soul."

"Love is enough."

"Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open."

"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small."

"A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly."

"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."