The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.