No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.