A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But they are things that, well, you just have to see and feel. p.147

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.

I am inspired by the success of those that came to LA around the time that I started.