“A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!”

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

Don’t give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!

If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

For your enemies, keep the door open forever!

Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married…

I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me.

I’m actually not star-struck… I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception.

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

I’ve found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person.

So from the first novel I’ve been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don’t try to protect them in ways that aren’t good for the story.