I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?

Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.