People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
[You should] see everything about your life as a lesson. Ask, "Am I empowering myself?" Even for a tiny thing, like if you're in the grocery store and you're thinking, "Should I buy that?" And your gut says, "You know you can't eat that. " If you decide not to listen, you've harmed yourself by blocking your intuitive voice.