We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.