I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Experience is low; confidence is high.

The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

I'm good. Or maybe people just like me.