Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,
and just before you realize what's wrong read more

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,
and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it
into a chair and not moving from the read more

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it
into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters read more

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.