Wisdom

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

Clara Winter,' he said. 'You are a word person and don't ever forget it.'He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?Her resilience ?Her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation ? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?

I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.

Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever.

Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

You tempt the devil,” he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. “Angels always do.

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

If kindness wins, accountability rules.

If one attains awareness of own’s own Self’s authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self).

In any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice.

A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.