Death is the inventor of God.

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.

When love writes a letter, joy is its ink.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.