“There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.”

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love.

In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

What I love about my audience is it’s extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.