And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.