Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Work to become whole enough to love and to be loved.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.

The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.