When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money so we can provide for our children, and we have children to provide...

There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he had no illusions about the phenomenon called the “first person singular” and had taken for granted, without particular emotion, that...

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not…it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home...

Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.

I’m a fool.At least i’m a self aware fool.

The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

One of the protestor’s sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL’S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The...

It’s our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth

Whatever life throws at me, I’ll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’ on the stereo.

At the railroad station he noted that he still had thirty minutes. He quickly recalled that in a cafe on the Calle Brazil (a few dozen feet from Yrigoyen’s house) there was an enormous cat...

Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn’t one of them.

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

You’re an unusual person,” she said.”Bill didn’t like you, but he never likes anything different. He’s so—so prosaic. Don’t you think that when a person gets older he should become—broadened in his outlook?

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren’t even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were “really there”.

We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.

If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I’d have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We’re all so tied together. We’re all...

The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the...

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author’s demise.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we...

Ce qu’on laisse approcher, on veut le retenir. Et on ne peut rien retenir.

Money Value of Time” is more valuable than “Time Value of Money”, you will know it by time.

Never condemn yourself. Always affirm positive words into your life.

Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.

As colors are formed by the combination of Red, Green and Blue : Similarly is life which is a combination of Love, Faith and Peace..

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red.

The Universe Conspires….to get what you truly desire

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

Let your eyes talk, mouth listens and ear sleeps.

They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.It’s what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it’s...

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

We are all time travelers, we just don’t know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket, destination: FUTURE.

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life.

You are sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

You have the ability to find all the answers–if you let yourself do so.

The secrets that lead to extraordinary success, won’t make sense to ordinary minds

Devil-boy Jack: “A higher power than ours directs us against the wych-kin. There is no turning back.”Thaniel Fox: “There is no higher power, Devil-boy! And I am no-one’s pawn, neither man nor wych nor whatever...

Just to say ‘I believe’ or ‘I do not doubt’ does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or...

Would you like to be best of the worst or the worst of the best?