Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place. . . an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.
Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.
These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.
Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation.
Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.
Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.