As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.