The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Knowledge can be borrowed but wisdom cannot because wisdom comes from experience.

The goal is essential to getting what you would like." ##

Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.

I can't make it fade.

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

There is no substitute for work.