God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

All we have is compassion and stories.

Only 42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an amazing statistic. How come in America Christians are the only ones who won't take anything on faith?

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

Everybody has something to conceal.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.