I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
En un mundo sin melancolía, los ruiseñores se pondrían a eructar.
And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.
- Io non credo che in Maometto, e anche quando mi pare e piace.
We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.
Hanya ada satu kepastian, yaitu kepastian tentang masa lampau. Sedangkan tentang masa depan, yang ada hanyalah kepastian tentang kematian
I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
It’s a number.” “It’s not,” she said. “It’s a chance to wake up new.
