"If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you"

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.”

“We have happy days, remember good dinners.”

“Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.”

“He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.”

“Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems. Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious.”

“There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.”

“Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.”