People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.

Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

The man who never reads lives only one.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

The moon shines for you.

You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some fun! Wear something colorful with a hint of sparkle.

Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.