"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

"Wisdom principle 3 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 97."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."

"I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd."

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."