Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

I will never lie again.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.