"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it."

“Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.”

“But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!”

“Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.”

“War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.”

“We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.”

“In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.”

Source : Hélder Câmara (1971). “Spiral of Violence”, Burns & Oates

“I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!”

“[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.”