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“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”
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“You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.”
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“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”
Source : Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.27, Penguin
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“There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.”
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“It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.”
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“The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.”
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“Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.”
Source : Usenet message, February 03, 1992.
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“If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.”
Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group
