A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

Believe in yourself and great things will happen.

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

I looked up, it was the first drop of rain.Tearing through the clouds, screaming as it did.For all this effort, it had to head towards the drain, So I looked up and caught it in my eye instead.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I never expected that this would be my life.

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.