"We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this."

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”

Source : Flaubert's Parrot ch. 13 (1984)

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.”

“Someday I will have nothing left to lose. I can't wait.”

“Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.”

“In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.”

“You said love, I say chemical imbalance.”

“Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.”

“For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.”

Source : Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community”, Edicoes Loyola