Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.