We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost!

I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.