An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.

I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Every moment for us is Laylatul Qadr.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

I saw it his eyes. I felt it when he touched me.