May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

I think there can be incestuous love.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

I'm not used to going out every single night, which you can do in New York.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.