I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

Even aimless journeys have a purpose.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.

Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the soul.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.