Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it