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

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.

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

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.

Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.

Love in this dying world but the simple word “love” itself already died and went away.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.