The love I knew was from books.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Your mind-set is your primary weapon

Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.