A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.

Soldier's fashion accessory is his weapon just like a jewelry for women.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.