I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

• Plan in decades• Think in years• Work in months• Count in days• Live in the moment

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.