A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

Discipline is for professionals. Motivation is for amateurs.

The best part of the gospel is you get to take it with you wherever your heart lands.

Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.

A bachelor is a man who has to know how to remove a coffee stain from a catsup stain from a silk tie.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.

I always want to write something better than the last book.