"There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me."

“Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.”

“It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.”

Source : duc de François La Rochefoucauld, François La Rochefoucauld (duc de), King of Poland Stanisław, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.173

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

Source : Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901).

“The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.”

“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”

Source : Quoted in Richard Hakluyt, Third and Last Volume of the Voyages (1600).

“Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!”

“I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.”

“Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.”