The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: I write all the time. I get up every morning not knowing what I’m going to do. I usually have a perception around dawn when I wake up. I have what I call the theater of morning inside my head, all these voices talking to me. When they come up with a good metaphor, then I jump out of bed and trap them before they’re gone. That’s the whole secret: to do things that excite you.
As quoted in The Christian Leader, Vol. 37, Issue 7 (17 February 1934)
Said at Keswick, as quoted in The Education Outlook (1926) Vol. 78
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251
“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 49, “Areosynchronous” (p. 313)
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
