aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.

God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!