"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."

"Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces."

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

"A heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different."

"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."