I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.

A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.

This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.