The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.

Sow but don't rush to gather the fruits

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

The best way to feel family is being part of it.

Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

The easiest way is not always the best way

Many great failures lead to the ultimate success

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

Any failure we could suffer throughout our lives, will turn into little successes if we take the right path, keep walking.

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

When you're through changing you're through.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.