A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

If you personalize losses, you can't trade.

If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great