To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

I was raised to pretend.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.