Each day is a little bit of history

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.

I don’t want you to be a people-pleaser

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

That customer service representative is crazy, if he think I am going to pay that bill.

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

I've been going to chiropractor for as long as I can remember. It's as important to my training as practicing my swing.