In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life.

She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.