Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

As I said back in 1984, the idea of logistics is not only about oil, about ammunitions and supplies but also about images.

This [my backside] is still very, very big.

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.