To fail at all is to fail utterly.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Haters may hate, but we can't stop loving.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

People don't want information; they want epiphanies.

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.