Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it in a bush somewhere.

Won't you be my girlfriend I'll treat you goodI know you hear your friends when they say you should 'Cause if you were my girlfriend I'd be your shining star The one to show you where you are

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.