What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from "Here Comes the Groom" or "Waterboy."

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.