Ishmael quotes:

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

I had gone to a talent show, I was interested in American hip-hop music, with my older brother, to another town and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.