"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."

“The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.31, Macmillan

“As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.”

“Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.”

Source : "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

“The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.”

“I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.”

“Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.”

“Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.”

Source : "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1989.

“Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.”