Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light.

There are no pessimists

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.