I had to help them. There was no choice.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment.)

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

Pardoning mercy makes way for healing mercy.