Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting,
Love makes men big, and hate makes them small.
Karma’s a hammer, not a feather
I surrendered to India, as I did every day, then, and as I still do, every day of my life, no matter where I am in the world.
Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life. Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is tha...
For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one...
Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims
— Разумният човек е просто по-добър лъжец от лудия. Вие с Абдула сте братя. Знам го. Очите ви лъжат и ви казват, че това не е така. И вие вярвате в тази лъжа, защото така е по-лесно.— И така ли запазв...
Тежко е да обичаш някого, на когото не можеш да простиш.
When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end.
Whatever you do in life, do it with courage,
What characterises the human race more, Karla once asked me, cruelty, or the capacity to feel shame for it? I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I’m lonelier and wise...
We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don’t you find?
There’s a truth that’s deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the percep...
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.
The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as...
THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards,
Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat. She’s