There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.