Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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

Work hard as if there was no God and trust God as if you have not worked.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.

When it comes to guys, make sure you are treated like a princess, always.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Revolutions are not made, they come.