Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door and open it, stop waiting around for someone to give it to you

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

You can tell a lot about a person by whether or not they're a transvestite.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.