Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

True villains are extremely photogenic.

My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.