… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."

You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren’t planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.