Time at length becomes justice.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

We find the greatest happiness for every challenge we conquered.

If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!

I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

The big art is our life.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.