People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.

The essence of coexistence is quite simple: live and respect how others live.

The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single “David” standing with God, than a million “Goliath’s” standing without Him.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.