We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

It takes very little to govern good people.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

I dont believe knowing can save us. What is
constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God—who knows all that can be known—seems powerless to change.