A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.

You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Misfortune comes to all men.

If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean.

We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

And if I please you so, my lover, Remember praise is comely.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

Sometimes beauty can be a trap.