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.

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

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.

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.

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.

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

Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.