I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.

I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.