The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.