There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

What year is it in your imagination?

SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN LUCKY...OTHERS ARE LUCKY TO BE BORN...I SAY THE WORLD WAS LUCKY I WAS BORN

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

There are secrets in all families.

"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

Stop looking for your purpose. BE it!