If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

It's not who you know, but who you are that matters most.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.