So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT. " "I learned it from you," I told him. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.