Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.