Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. Trust your every step because none of us walk this journey alone.

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.

A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.