Fear is a wolf on a chain, only dangerous when you set it free. Sorrow exhausts itself in the net of forgetting. Anger, for all its fury, can be killed by a smile. Only hope goes on forever, because h...
Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and hu...
Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
Fanaticism means that if you’re not against me, you’re against me.
FORTY-SEVEN We found Diva in a shriek of Divas, in the lobby of the President hotel. The three of them stopped, staring at us with well-practised aghast. Didier was in a rumpled, white linen jacket an...
Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end.
Every human heartbeat, he’d said many times, is a universe of possibilities.
Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of a room also leads us into the past of the room and its ceaselessly unfolding future.
Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it’s a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.
Esiste una diversità fra dolore e sofferenza: ciò che impariamo dal dolore - per esempio, che il fuoco scotta ed è pericoloso - è sempre individuale, mentre ciò che impariamo dalla sofferenza ci affra...
Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him?’ ‘Yeah. And then the scorpion stin...
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the...
But it’s not true. It’s the other way round. 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, be...
But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn’t join it. I’m not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more impo...
Black money runs through the fingers faster than legal, hard-earned money. If we can’t respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can’t use it to make life better for our families and loved...
Be to, jei tikimės, kad mums kas nors išeis, noriu, kad nieko neliktų nepasakyta... apie praeitį.
At the moment, most of our ways of defining the unit of morality are similar in their intentions, but they differ in their details. So the priests of one nation bless their soldiers as they march to w...
At first, on that first journey out of the city into India, I found such sudden politeness infuriating after the violent scramble to board the train. It seemed hypocritical for them to show such defer...
And when you left, I didn’t feel anything at all. Not a thing. I didn’t want to be forgiven because of what I did. I wanted to be forgiven—and I still
And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we’re connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature.