Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.

A skydiver, arrogant in his ability to navigate the heavens, rejects his fragile state and calls himself a God of the skies.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.