Trophy does not represent success at all, it's just a mere accomplishment of something. Success is enjoying the process of accomplishment.
Talent does not search for the person, in fact the person needs to search for the talent inside him and take it out to show the world.
Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.
Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.
I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.
The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
