The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

Making and Working on my Beliefs.

I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

Forgiven sin is better than accumulated wrath.

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.