People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.

But facts, remembered or not, are all, alas, still facts

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.