“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.  

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

Depression is the absence of hope.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

When I first met Nelson Mandela, I burst into tears. He is one of the greatest Heroes of my life.⁣

Walking, praying and working together: this is the great path that we are called to follow.

If you’ve got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.