There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.

I am a lonely man, ' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also a melancholy man, and so I asked you why you should wish to visit me so often.

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.

On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch.

Music is made for relax, let's don't move it... let's be clever and left it like this, shall we?

Get rid of pride

I listen mostly to classical music.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Commitment is a word that cannot stand alone. We must always ask, "Committed to what?" . . . . let us be committed to . . . using Jesus Christ as our master teacher.

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

What you think of me is none of my business. What is most important is what I think of myself.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.