I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

The love I knew was from books.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.

Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

There may be a difference of the pace at which India moves, but there should be no doubt whatsoever about the direction in which India is going to move in years to come.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, #‎ humility .