The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

They're my mistakes. ... I didn't pick the right guys.

My tattoos remind me of all that I have been through.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.