An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.

I thought of her as she, and she as her.

Even if you can’t see the whole road ahead, you can ask for the one step that will lead you forward.

The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.