Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

My mum always said you get more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding.

To be so lonelyyou told yourself you liked to be this way& almost believed it was true.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.