And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.

This world ye speak of, Akira, is built upon survival. The strong conquer and live, while the weak crumble and die.

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.