For what reasons would you waste your time on earth?

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Be a great writer when you write your life's song.

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

I've never been a great cook.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.