Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil.

The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.

After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

To admire me is to admire my silence, Petra HermansSeptember 5, 2016

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose".

I know by the way the punch landed, he wouldn't get up.