What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.