I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

Worrying is like praying for crap!

A clear personal brand communicates what you have to offer and attracts desirable opportunities.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

There's no such thing as forever.

Don't waste the opportunity.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.