“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”

“I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.”

“Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.”

“If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera," he would say again and again”

“I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.”

“Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.”

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”