Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Dare to risk public criticism.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Effective action is always unjust.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.