All the nightmares will come true, whether you try or not, but for your dreams to come true, you have to do everything.

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.

Know that you are constantly surrounded by unconditional love.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Why's it gotta be Ôtani for me? I don't know because I have way too many reasons to choose from! He's the one for me, that's all. He just is.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.