Ray Bradbury

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, the citizens burning to approve a wrong or the frowning looks of a tyrant. Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, as the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one’s ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they’ve made, and that’s OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t make them over and over again, you’re on the right path.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.