Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born...

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice.

It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because the moments we spent readying the mask, or readying ourselves to accept...

people who believe themselves to be white are obsessed with the politics of personal exoneration. And the word racist, to them, conjures, if not a tobacco-spitting oaf, then something just as...

"Shortcut.' The word filled me with dread. When has a shortcut ever worked out as planned? The word – in a horror film at least – usually precedes disembowelment and death. A 'shortcut' almost...

Celsus was the first known person to realize that this non-political, quietist, and pacifist community had it in its power to transform the social and political order of the empire.

It is common that on sleepless nights one is theoretically more decisive than during the day, in fact. The next day, upon coldly analyzing this possibility, I concluded that I would never have enough...

The hours we spent in the workshop are hours I will never forget. My feelings, throughout that entire period, oscillated between the purest love and the most unrestrained hatred, faced with the...

But when he was with a woman, and he liked the way she spoke, he would take her to bed because of the enthusiasm it caused him to see her use the present perfect indicative, as if the presence of the...

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

A paste of blue cloud untangled itself on the red sky over the harbour.

The ones we love most are those we trust least.

That of dealing death, of loosing another man's soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade deeper and pull the man's heart and guts out upon the iron point of your...

The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned...

But the old cripple never knew the joy of cradling a child in his own arms.

He didn't know he had only the shell of the woman he loved. It didn't matter. The shell was enough.

find the contents of the basket, then reworked the cinch-basket-harness arrangement, fastening the two spears the way they had fallen, points down. She attached the grass mat, which had been wrapped...

South Holding, was the acknowledged leader of the Twenty-ninth Cave, but Summer Camp and

She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light; I would spread the cloths under your...

When I was young, my peers prepared to endure 20 years of hardship, and if fortunate, perhaps enjoy a bit more comfort in old age. Now, young people want to live well from the start. When it comes to...

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

And he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. He used to say, 'I want only can-do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can-do people around....

If you do everything, you'll win

Then she said good night and headed to her room.

The whole school was in shock when he died. Just six months earlier, another guy from school died. Everyone went on about too much tragedy. Want to know about tragedy? Come to my house. A year later,...