whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.

A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us, " said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Paint the essential character of things.

I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.

Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

A little praise goes a great ways.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.