You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.