I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.

We love that which we corrupt.

Don't want to turn into mini-me.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.

As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.