The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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

The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.

It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

I love flying planes.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

Like a therapist hairdressers are in a position of trust. We are transforming not just how a person looks but how they feel.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.