Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.