Having riches ultimately means having few needs.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

One need not know one's karma, but have faith in life to be able to keep on going. With faith one can let go and let things take its course, embrace life and merge with it. Because she is the way.

Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.

America wants its respect.

We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.