If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

There is no cosmetic to gain a beauty like yours.

Life is a passing moment.

You can't be passionate about gratitude and be crippled by ingratitude.

We don’t need to wait for Heaven. Heaven is with us now.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

Do all things with love.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.