The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.