They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Results are always hidden in thoughts and actions.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.