It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.