Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist.

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.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to

If you stay ready, there's no need to get ready when an opportunity presents itself.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

The design industry is really pathetic.

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger