The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

My country has no history, only a past.

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.

I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

I'm not a very vengeful person. I like to accept people; I tend to see the good in everybody, so I'm kind of stupid like that.

What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into the minds of the consumers so that they will ask their doctor about it. That's the whole goal.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

It's nice to be one of the most beautiful people.

A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.