Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Work to fulfill destiny

Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming rewards the experimental, curious mind.

I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the L.A. Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish in the world of entertainment. It's all I've ever known since I was 19.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.