When you love someone, you often surprise yourself with the kind of forbearance you can show in the face of total exasperation.

Nobody does anything for anybody my friend. We just become mediums to bring each other what destiny has already ordained.

Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.

Listening is the key. The whole objective of a howl is to be heard.

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.

In order to get wealth, knowledge is needed.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I've never been called a man of few words.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.