The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.Our behavior, attitude & approach makes them become either one.

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

E-governance is the only way to move from good governance to proactive pro-people good governance (P2G2).

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.