It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

That which costs little is less valued.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.