Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance", Jem said.

My memories are not of time but of times.

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.