Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

You may need to change your dreams.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

Be grateful for life. Show gratitude to others, whether it’s verbally or energetically, it has the same effect.

I think forgiveness is a missing key to corporate success.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?