The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.

Everyone is useful for specific task.

There are always going to be Muslim atrocities! Whenever the media starts obsessing with ISIS, I think you're hiding something.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

Then never less alone than when alone.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.