* Thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter doesn’t disappear.* Pay attention to coincidence.* You can choose your identity." And a recent one: Only the present moment matters.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

Maybe fire and kerosene don't go together for a reason.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.