Life is not only merriment, It is desire and determination.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.

I do not like being in front of the camera.

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.