Your Attitude Is Everything. Believe In Yourself

Many A Young Person Tells Me He Wants To Be A Writer. I Always Encourage Such People, But I Also Explain That There's A Big Difference Between Being A Writer And Writing. In Most Cases These Individuals Are Dreaming Of Wealth And Fame, Not The Long Hours Alone At The Typewriter. You've Got To Want To Write, I Say To Them, Not Want To Be A Writer. The Reality Is That Writing Is A Lonely, Private And Poor-paying Affair. For Every Writer Kissed By Fortune, There Are Thousands More Whose Longing Is Never Requited. Even Those Who Succeed Often Know Long Periods Of Neglect And Poverty. I Did.

Most Of Us Prefer To Be As Quiet As Possible About Giving, Because Every Time It's Publicized That We Do Something, If It's Something Of The Nature Of Giving, We'll Be Doubly Besieged, And You Really Get Sick Of Being Always Criticized No Matter What You Do.

I Think Most People When You Say Slavery Tend To See A Group Of Anonymous People Pulling Cotton Sacks In Great Plantation Fields, And That Is Largely True.

Nobody Can Do For Little Children What Grandparents Do. Grandparents Sort Of Sprinkle Stardust Over The Lives Of Little Children.

You Don't Spend Twenty Years Of Your Life In The Service And Not Have A Warm, Nostalgic Feeling Left In You. It's A Small Service, And There's A Lot Of Esprit De Corps.