All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something.

My girlfriend is despicable. I just found out she flirted with my brother, during my mom's funeral, while I was asleep.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.