Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Even coal shimmers in the light

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

There is no treasure like the human heart.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Failed coup has put the people in general on a long trudge to freedom while creating a situation to consolidate more power to exercise the legitimised arbitrariness of Erdoğanian democracy.

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.