Chaos is the penance for leisure.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

The real You is hidden beneath the mental noise in Your head.

The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has "struck out."

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

I cannot be what I am not.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".