Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

On the right, a brigade of trolls. On the left, squabling civil servants. Invasion of zombies. Have I managed to summarize the zeitgeist now?

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.