When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

People want to feel united, they want to have that religious sense they want to feel like at a rave 10,000 people at the rave are feeling the same emotions, a very primal need that's not being fulfilled in the world today.