She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her.

And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.

And in that vastness, it felt like every memory existed only to disappear one day.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.