Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.

We do not love each other without changing each other.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.