He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

What we frankly give forever is our own.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat.

The truest protest is beauty.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.

It’s easier to be God than to see God.