If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about.

No one else, but the silence of the night cried with me

With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.

The world is full of paper, write to me

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.