The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.
Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk about how many mullahs in Pakistan were putting up posters saying, "We follow bin Laden. " He even produced a sort of Kodak set of snapshots of graffiti supporting him.
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.