If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
I would never want to kill a human being.
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.
I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.