One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.