"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

I don't want to be remembered; I want to be felt.

The most beautiful thing in the world is truth.