This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no fooling around. Writing enables one to take ideas floating in the brain and give them a tangible existence. Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
Good writing is the best evidence of clear thinking.
The will to succeed is important, but what is more important is the will to prepare. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Men have become the tools of their tools.