The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Freedom is taken for granted by the free and longed for by those who never had it. But for those who have lost it, the loss burns like the hottest flame.

Revived spirit, restored strength.

Those who flame up in anger against you

This is my one last call and lullaby for this eternity. All of my medicine.

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

Tragedy alters everything.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.

To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.