People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.