The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Unlike Christianity which preached a peace that it never achieved Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

You can see that there is an increase in the volume of freight that moves by air. And so, we have got to solve the problem by making sure that that is done properly.

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.