As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Literature is analysis after the event.

Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

Motivation is like quicksand. if you stand still for too long you will sink. When you start working towards your goal the start always hard until you aren't sinking anymore.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.