Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who’s in crisis?

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.

Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.