The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.

Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.

From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.