If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright

I have said many times that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.