I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.

Perfection is an opinion not a fact.

Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.

No matter how tired I am, when a great song comes on, I'm full of energy.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

C'mon, Tabitha. You stabbed me the night we met without even blinking. (Valerius) Yeah, but you were a dirtbag then. (Tabitha) I think I'm offended. (Valerius)

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.