Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

The stock market can be fooled, but not forever.

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.