The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.

People are fascinating. Especially the ones who hate me.

Words live longer than mortals.

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Instead of imposing something, let it make itself.

Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.