What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

A desire to choose the hardest might be a confession of weakness in itself.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

I was in choir [at school].

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

I would never want to move to L.A.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.