Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.