A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

No matter what the hatred is, preserve the possibility of peace and always have room for forgiveness.

If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

It's hard to nap on Saturday or the weekends.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

Rio would be my last Olympics.