Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

When I forget how to love I look at my dog.

Congratulations, " she said. "You win.

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen

People will respect you more if you are honest with them.