A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

A true friend will never do match-making if they dont like the person that makes their friend Happy

Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

I don't believe in astrology - of course that's very typical of Leos.

I have a car but it's not important.

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die.

I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.