What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

Reflection makes men cowards.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.