Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone.

That's what marriage is, isn't it? Taking the rough with the smooth. At least, that's what it should be.

Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.