Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

I am not now That which I have been.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Thought is free.

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