No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.

Things aren’t different. Things are things.

If you miss your bus, just start walking.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong...

One person’s garbage is another person’s commodity.

Always take a compliment, even if it’s not yours

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are...

For other people, I can’t speak – but, personally, I haven’t gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I’ve been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again....

We are all only men, defined by our choices.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

And yet hewas in the right! They were wrong and he was right. Theobvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truismsare true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its...

Running Doesn’t Change Anything…Dying Does.

God always prepare us for the great mission but we are unaware.All the stages are connected; we must graciously be fully present in each stage.

Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don’t have any money, and even though we’d like to think we’ll have it someday, we know we don’t...

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

Aures habent et non audient` – `They have ears but hear not

You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live. We let other people grow our food, bleach our clothes. We seal...

The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you ; is you

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.

Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.

Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

Man is Nature’s most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort,...

How curious it was, […], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet, within minutes of death, we were already tobogganing back down the slope.

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

I don’t reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.

Dualism::In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Es decir…, lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (…) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por...

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish’d ? that with sing-song,Whine me dead?

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than...

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian of their deep and hidden...

Work on your character, let life fall into place.

You put on a bishop’s robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty...

You’d be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you’d do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one’s...

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

If he ever changes his stance on something, it’s because he’s received new information.

Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Søte bløte stikkelsbær. Hvorfor vokser du på så sinte trær? Hvorfor kan du ikke neste vår, vokse på en eplegren? Sånn at jeg kan få plukket deg, uten å få stukket meg!

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the...