"All are One. Be alike to everyone. Share, propagate this truth all over the world."

"Each one must become aware that he is part of the one Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. It is reprehensible to stick, for one's whole life-time, to the narrow path of selfishness, envy and greed."

"Truth is one; there cannot be two. For, two can only be One, occurring twice."

"Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up."

"Virtue is the wealth to be won."

"Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours."

"Do not be obsessed by the importance of wealth."

"The Divine pervades everything in the Universe. This may not be understood by everyone. Some may not agree that the Divine is Omnipresent. But whether they accept this fact or not, the truth is, evidence of the presence of God can be found wherever one turns."

"Travel safe and arrive happy."

"A language is as sweet as the tongues of the speakers."

"In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort."

"You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone."

"The unfed mind devours itself."

"How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself."

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."

"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."

"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."

"The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose."

"I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out."

"Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race."

"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

"I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place"

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."

"Always a godfather, never a god."

"We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing."

"The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death."

"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60."

"To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all."

"Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!"

"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

"Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family."

"A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)"

"As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing--not art, not sex--more than going to the movies."

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."

"Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors."

"Love is a fan club with only two fans."

"I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting."

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head."

"Never have children, only grandchildren."

"History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place."

"Never offend an enemy in a small way."

"Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange."

"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."

"Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again."

"The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all."