Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

Even God cannot change the past.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Do not read books to escape reality. Read them to understand the reality you live in.

This is life, we look but we don't see, and we hear but we don't learn.

Another factor if increase is self-development

If I interview people, I would get to know many lives and experiences that I haven't been through myself.

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

Only the completely enlightened are beyond winning and losing. Yet, strangely enough, they had to win to get to the point of being beyond winning and losing.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Be big, fast and flexible.

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.