“Get this in mind early: We never grow up.”

“Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.”

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.”

“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”

“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”