No doing without some ruing.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

A problem's worst nightmare is a solution. Be the solution!

Believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Begin to read, write, sing, dance, study, draw…!

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.