Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down with the power of my art, without delaying the matter further.

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.