That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

We are our own gods and our own demons.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.

A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.