When your critics stop their marathon criticisms of you, their sudden silences are roaring approvals of your actions.

No amount of deception and lie can make wrong things right; no amount of perversion and calumniation can make right things wrong.

Some mistakes can be corrected and learned; others are decidedly fatal. Think carefully if the latter are worth the risk.

A good writer sees themself as a reader; a good teacher sees themself as a student.

Self-confidence and determination take us to our destinations; overconfidence and arrogance take us to unexpected destruction.

We cannot choose when to be born or when to die, but we can decide to be good persons.