The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

I think the reason why I am who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach them, no man can live. What we call life is a journey, and the journey itself is home.