Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare

If you haven't forgiven yourself something how can you forgive others?

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.