The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

We both know that pain comes for us all. It's almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?

This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.