The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone love you.

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

I will write another book if I feel like it.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.