“I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.”

“When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.”

“Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.”

“In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.”

“We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.”

“This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”