You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.