"Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest."
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"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."
"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."
"No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it."
"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."
"It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another."
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?"
"One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience."
"The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care."
"nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make."
"We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!"
"I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work."
"Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask."
"Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
"If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead."
"How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading."
"I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it."
"If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?"
"Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea."
"Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that."