Love cannot reconcile with deception

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

SIMPLICIO: ... You have to [learn to] walk before you can run.SALVIATI: No, you have to have something you want to run toward.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

What we don't know is much more than what we know.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.