She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

Life is share, sacrifice and service.

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.