When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn’t take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.