See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.