Without literature my life would be miserable.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul!

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

We are what we seem to be.