“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

In chaos, there is fertility.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Together, we are effectively taking on big-money interests and the political establishment and transforming American politics.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

I’ve been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.