Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it’s possible and you do it.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.