"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

"An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb."

"If you want to eat a toad, you should eat the fat one."

"The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace."

"The writer's duty is to help society regain its self-belief and put away the complexes of the years of denigration and self-abasement."