The higher the flight, the harder the fall.
飞得越高,摔得越重。
"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
If one has realised, he is that which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be that.
Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority of a voice, not the purity of a soul.
Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Afghanistan is the land of my past, the place where I had laughed and cried, but it was no longer my home.