Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.

When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.

I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.