When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.

We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Looking back on myself as a little kid, I see seeds of entrepreneurship.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.