Wisdom

There is something divine in mindless beauty.

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill.

No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called 'spannungsbogen' -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, 'Mamma, can I open the light?' She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.

It is values that dictate your responses.

Nothing is lost that cannot be refound' she says in a voice infused with otherworldly authority 'this is the Dark Goddess's promise to guide you back to your deepest self and soul. If you choose this Sarah, so will it be.

To make a miracle, all you have to do is share a little of the magic.