“If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”
― The Scions of Shannara
― The Scions of Shannara
“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.”
― Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
― Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
“Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.”
― When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
― When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
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