These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.

One of these days, I would doubt the Gardeners a little too much and Zach was going to play handball with my head.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

I'm a human being before anything else.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.