As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings.

People judge you by what they see outside of you, But don't let them judge you, because they never see what is inside of you.

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

What I am to be, I am becoming.