When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

To know the Lord is the gift of peaceful joyful life.

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.

I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.