Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!.

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrumen….

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity..

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm stil….

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction..

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind..

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting f….

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most..

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power..

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just me….

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw..

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured..

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future..

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices..

Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpabl….

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what….

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair..

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it..

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears..

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?.