When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Give up trying to make me give up

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Once you label me you negate me.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

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

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.