Creativity means believing you have greatness.
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice , we must be just.
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
Enough of anything is plenty, but plenty to some people is never enough.
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.
In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.