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

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.

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.

Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup –and our destiny.

The connection between you and any business is knowledge.

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.