My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

To learn is to change how you think.

I am burning within with an immeasurable, indescribable endless joy of life.

It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

Luck is good planning carefully executed.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids!

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Know your enemy, know his sword.

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.