An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Love cannot reconcile with deception

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard

Character is greatness inside out.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was just that feel, that sound.

You don't win everything. And you ultimately have to take what you get. I think on the case of [Donald] Trump, there's a much bigger upside than down side.

I was in a love that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it.