Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

I'd rather speak into someone's life than out of their life!" EL

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.