“You gain confidence and grow stronger by every experience in which you really push yourself to do something you didn't think you could do.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you’ve really stopped to look fear in the face.You must do the thing which you think you cannot do”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”

“You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately”

“The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.”

“Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!”