Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

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.

If you are expecting something in return for your love, you are not loving truly.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Don't workout because you think you 'need' to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.