The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

Become more skilful in how you use words – towards yourself or others.

When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal.

Good things are not done in a hurry.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Tell me something wicked.

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

Well take care of the counting.