Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.