...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

Inside you there is something that the whole world needs

Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

Many friends in generall, one in speciall.

It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun That's July Four July Five, the fun is done The fireworks are no more

It was very difficult but definitely not a snap decision.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.