Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If there is any pressure to sell yourself cheap in order to be accepted, you truly don't belong there.

Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.

You are a part of everything. You are like the guys in the bar and that gal on the corner with the red dress. We are a little bit of everyone. Let's not get too fancy here.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.