Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.

What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.

Why spiders? Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.