Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

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.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.

If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Society is founded upon Cloth.