I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.
I send you my laughter. May Buddha bless thee and thine.
I really don’t understand them, the capitalists. They delude themselves. We’re openly committed to consume them but they give us the means to do it.
I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don’t like a lot of what I see nowadays.
He remembered the pride-filled glow that had swamped Gyoko's face and he wondered again at the bewildering gullibility of people. How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would...
But they’re as Communist as Russia. They went to war against us when we were only trying to protect freedom in South Korea. We weren’t going to attack them.
But she wasn’t a virgin and that hurt Grey, for she had implied it many times. But he pretended that he didn’t know she had cheated him.
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into the ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however,requires...
¿Qué son las nubes, si no un pretexto para el cielo?¿Qué es la vida, si no una huida de la muerte?
«Karma es el principio del conocimiento. Después, está la paciencia. La paciencia es muy importante. Los pacientes son fuertes, Anjín-san. Paciencia significa dominar nuestra inclinación hacia las sie...
Those who are young will take risks which even the devil would pass by.
Reminding himself to remember forever that the pen’s a long arm from the grave.
Wildcat strikes are the way of the future. With wildcats we can get around union hierarchies without disrupting existing unionism. Our unions’re fragmented. Deliberately. Fifty men can be a separate u...
Time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even a rock.
The talk had turned to business, and in the few short hours she had learned more about Hong Kong techniques than through all the reading she had done. More and more it was clear that unless you were o...
The British. We have proved beyond all doubt we’re to be trusted, we can govern, and, by and large, our bureaucracy’s incorruptible.
Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don’t give way to the seven, you’re patient, then you’ll soon understand a...
Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing
Nothing is of more importance to the state than the quality of its spies. It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.
My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks. The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick.