“Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.”

“Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin,the Gods they serve, the Vintage they drink,nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin,But by the quality of the thought they think.”

“You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now”

“When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought”

“The safety gap is so large, in fact, that planes would still be safer than cars even if the threat of terrorism were unimaginably worse than it actually is: An American professor calculated that even if terrorists were hijacking and crashing one passenger jet a week in the United States, a person who took one flight a month for a year would have only a 1-in-135,000 chance of being killed in a hijacking--a trivial risk compared to the annual 1-in-6,000 odds of being killed in a car crash.”

“The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.”