A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

Never treat people with disdain, they all deserve your respect irrespective of their faith or religion

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

Don't ask whether it's going to be easy. Ask whether it's going to be worth it.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

No two people have the same reality

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Remember that everything starts with a thought and thoughts produce in kind.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.