... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us