The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!
The cops watched me and the Georges and the other foreigners who worked the streets, and they knew exactly what we were doing. They reasoned, truly enough, that we caused no violent harm, and we were...
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - t...
So, while fire and smoke singed the midnight sky, and bells and sirens railed about a kilometre away, we directed our men as they moved the heavy equipment into the new factory. And Krishna and Villu...
Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash, the poet Sadiq Khan once wrote. But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.
Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and define what we are by references to the people we...
People say that money is the root of all evil,’ Khaled told me when we met in his apartment. His English was rich with accents of New York and Arabic and the Hindi that he spoke reasonably well. ‘But...
Non so cosa mi spaventa di più: il potere che ci schiaccia o la nostra infinita capacità di sopportarlo.
No smile would work, no goodbye would pray, no kindness would save, if the truth inside us wasn’t beautiful. And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we’re connected, at our best, by purities...
Naujienos praneša, ką žmonės darė. Paskalos praneša, kaip jiems tai patiko.
Money isn’t the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There’s no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there’s no clean way to make it.
Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked -...
I’m a writer. I have to believe in the power of love. Suicide isn’t an option.’ ‘Not for you.’ ‘And not for you. If you’re thinking about it, you can also put some thought into the fact that you don’t...
It’s a fact of life on the run that you often love more people than you trust.
It is always a fool’s mistake, Didier once said to me, to be alone with someone you shouldn’t have loved.
It doesn’t matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn’t even matter what you are. It’s what you try to be that counts.
If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth.