“Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.”

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

I’m an early bird and I’m a night owl so I’m wise and I have worms.

I’m not a magician. I’am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

We only ever regret the things we have not done.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this – He tapped his chest, over his heart. ‘This is always true.

The truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included.

Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

Anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.’ I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.