Ray Bradbury

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

All heiresses are beautiful.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

You have to be odd to be number one.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.