You have to be run by missionaries, not mercenaries.
I believe in the power of dreams.
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
"The city’s poor are like the roots of a tree; unseen, but essential to its life."
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.