Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

I'm not even worried about the Internet, that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that.

You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want them to be honest with you.