He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Common sense is not so common.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Give up trying to make me give up

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Each soul is potentially divine.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

I am not now That which I have been.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.