Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!

Eleanor let his words hit her full on.

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.

My wife and I had words - but I never got to use mine.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.