If you want to conquer fear then you have to put fear on your fears.

If you don't go through the shaking, you shall never be ready for the making.

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Sam [L.Jackson] never asks for another take because he knows what he's doing. He gives you what he thinks is the best take, and he does it on the first take.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.