And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

Women empowerment begins at home!

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming.

We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.