I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.

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.

No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

There is only one way to success and that is love. Love what you want to do, it will be done.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

I usually need to sit with pain a while. Really feel it. Then I need to talk it out. Luckily, I am surrounded by wonderful listeners who haven't told me to shut up yet.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.