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A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!
For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.
Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.
For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!
You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!
Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!
If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.
If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!
It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!
Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!
Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.
Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!
Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.
To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!
Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!
When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!
When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!
Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!
Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!
If you love the life very much, you will see that everything is shining, everything is sparkling!
Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there!
The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.
Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.
Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'
It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
I know that I work hard for the things that I do, and I really go to the places that I report on.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.