„Всеки удар на човешкото сърце е цяла вселена от възможности — често повтаряше той. Стори ми се, че най-сетне съм разбрал какво е искал да каже с това. Опитваше се да ми обясни, че всяка човешка воля...
— Истината е, че не съществуват добри или лоши хора — рече той. — Доброта или злина притежават само делата им. Има добри дела или лоши дела. Хората са просто хора — онова, което ги свързва с доброто и...
But there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
When you're sober and fit, it's the world that's fucked.
When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.
We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
Time is the web, and Fate is the spider.
They slink up beside you, and whisper I thought you should know. Then they proceed to destroy your confidence, and trust, and even the quality of your life with their disgusting fragment of the truth....
They are not true Marxist, nor true Leninist. The Russians are imperialists.
There's a truth 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 perception. W...
There is no man, and no place, without war.
There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.-- Abdullah
There is an element of control we have over suffering.
There are only one million of them, the truly evil men, in the whole world. The very rich and the very powerful, whose decisions really count—they only number one million. The stupid men, who number t...
Then, to the general comment—I think that suffering is the way we test our love. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way.
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.
The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no...
The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang...