I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.