Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

You won't find your soul in a textbook, self-help book, or buy it in a store. Sometimes, it's just a matter of looking past the anger, regret, and envy to see its smiling face.

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks, but they often can't afford to.

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.