We risk all in being too greedy.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

No infant starts to speak with a stammer

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

Books are a time machine.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.