Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad.

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.