It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.