Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.