I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

 When I am overcome by an inflated ego, I think of the lofty mountains.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Wit is educated insolence

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.