A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.