We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

You are here to be fully alive. Your expression is needed. Don't hold back

Imagine, then think, then desire, then dream, then act to achieve and it will be yours.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

I am not anti-cop, I am pro-cop.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.