Being broke is only temporary if you do not allow yourself to be poor forever.

Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

No team works out teamwork.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.