We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity.

Never make someone a priority when they only make you an option

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

Place bets on your dreams and be your own hero!

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.