“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

“Because there is no such thing as people who just believe in ideas. Once people get ideas, they want to act on them. They want to share them with other people. People become idealists. And idealists are always dangerous. People who can see grey areas, who live beige lives, will always be the safe members of society. But they will never change anything.”

“Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.”

“The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it. ”

“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”

“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.”