Quotes

You can fool men. They are like chickens charmed by a snake, by a finger held before 'em.

I see why you say that only men do evil, I think.

Even sharks are innocent; they kill because they must.

That is why nothing else can resist us. Only one thing in the world can resist an evilhearted man.

And that is another man.

In our shame is our glory.

Only our spirit, which is capable of evil, is capable of overcoming it!

When we crave power over life -endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality- then desire becomes greed.

And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil.

Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And i leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly.

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.

Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simple be.

Or wonder who, after all, you are.

To deny rhe past is to deny the future. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it denies it.

If i knew, I would speak. I know nothing. I guess much.

When a storm begins, it is only a little cloud on the horizon.

If the whole flock wander, will our black sheep stay by the fold?

What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty.

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake.

It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.

The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

She cried for the waste of years in bondage to a useless evil.

I go where I sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long.

Do you see that?

I do what I must do.

Where I go, I must go alone.

Hospitality - kindness to a stranger, that's a very large thing.