Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.