It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Mind is a captive of the body.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.