and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness

Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with.

Faith is a gift of God.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.