Hatred destroys the person who hates.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Employment is my right my destiny.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.