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

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.