One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal read more

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just read more

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. read more

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Reject hatred without hating.

Reject hatred without hating.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if read more

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.