The present is always changing, but the past is fixed.
I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.
小说是生命的一本明亮的书。书不是生命。它们只是以太上的颤动。但小说是生命的一本明亮的书。
The great powers are always searching for opportunities to gain power at the expense of their rivals, and they will use force if they believe it will bring them strategic advantage.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.