Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade wind...
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher, a British politician....
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ Erich Fromm, a German-American philosopher and psychoanalyst....
El Poema de las Danzas, or The Poem about the Dance, is the title under which the famous Carmen Suite Ballet was transferred onto the screen in Russia. Here is the story of how the ballet had actually...
My father once told me that there were two types of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group: there was much less competition. Indira Ga...
If art, in the words of Victor Hugo, once consisted of putting the mask of the visible on the invisible, our world, deprived at once of art and criticism, would then have an unhealthy tendency to lose...
I wanted to share something about what I am presently doing in terms of literary work.Whereas previously I had often lived in the space created by one language, my space is now always bilingual, where...
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. Wystan Hugh Auden, an Anglo-American poet....
I don’t remember if I mentioned before that figure skating used for years to be my favourite sport, along with a few winter sports. Because the British are better during summer, in the last seve...
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength; He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will p...