If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

Turn your eyes away from fear. Discontinue the conversations of fear if you choose to embrace the fullness of your heart

WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.