A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Don’t remove the ladder once you done with it. Leave it for others to climb too

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.