A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.

Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)

And finally, always remember that the other person started it.

In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.