Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.