But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...

Think of what you desire out of life.

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.