In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

...Cause the heart has no manual settings.

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.