"I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books."

"I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time."

"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes."

"The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love."

"Wisdom principle 53 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 98."

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk."

"Wisdom principle 80 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 87."

"It is a profound truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors — an essential principle for the reflective life."