You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.

You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.

One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

'Option B' draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.

They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud