Martin Brown

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.