By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights. ]
The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.