Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

O Lord gives me a humble heart.

He was the one I compared all others to.

I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

Look, my friends, if I'm a racist, this doesn't mean that I hate brown people

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.