I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.

Why aren't I like other boys?

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

You are constantly becoming what you have been deserving to be, and if you do not like the scripting, you have all the mens to change it for better.

How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?

Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.

Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday.

...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.