Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead