An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

Training is principally an act of faith.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

Where the earth is, we are.

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.