There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.
If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes. To die well is not a thing of that light moment as some imagine: it is no easy matter. But to die well is a matter of every day. Let us daily do some good that may help us at the time of our death. Every day by repentance pull out the sting of some sin,that so when death comes, we may have nothing to do but to die. To die well is the action of the whole life.
She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.
I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.