We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

Culture is always about politics in the end.

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

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.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

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.

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