...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

How many times you failed will not be counted, but the time you stood up and fought back will be counted.

Strength is seeing yourself as you are.

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.