“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, it's too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all and simply to start.”

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”

“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

“Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.”

“And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.”

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.”

“It's never too late to start a new beginning”

“You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.”

“It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.”