His modesty amounts to deformity.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
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.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.