“There is no pain in losing what you never had.”

“Maybe men who still have the cave-man expectations of women should be sent back into caves. A lot of women will readily volunteer to build such caves free of charge.”

“Life is like the wind on the ocean; if it is against you, it doesnt really matter what direction it comes from or what direction it blows. It also doesnt matter what you do or fail to do. So you ar...”

“Some say your whole life appears before you like a TV when someone is about to shoot you, but the reality is you barely have any brain control beyond thinking about the muzzle and the finger on the...”

“Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item.”

“POVERTY CRIME When you push peopleInto the throes of povertyThey tend to think their value lowAnd so do they yours They will not think it graveTo lose their low valued livesAnd so will they not yours”

“(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, becau...”

“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could b...”

“How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other peoples eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?”

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everything is war. Me say war.That until the're no longer 1st class and...”

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

“And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.'He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with lo...”