In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.

You must wakeup in the morning thinking of things you could change in and about your life on a daily basis.

In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.

Live in the moment and be present in all that you do. Don't worry yourself with what happened yesterday or what's going to happen tomorrow. Stay focused with what's in front of you.

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.