Vision is the secret behind a life of passion, it motivates people to go through life with force

The most assured way to participate in a future is to anticipate it

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.’ Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. ‘Thanks, Dad. That’s helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

Perfection is the child of time.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

I just love the gifts you bring me for lunch. Other girls get diamonds. Me? I get mayhem and blood – and all before noon. Thanks, Tate. (Simone)

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.