My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.

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.

When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now!

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.