Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Angels were created into form so they can interact with Earth in a physical way.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.