If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.