Honesty may not bring you success, but it always adds to your dignity.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.

Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

I do love a man who can cook.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

I have no expectations. None at all.

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.