You become good at what you practise, basketball, anger or compassion, it is up to you!
You can’t win in love. But if you could, I’d be the clear victor. Vodka is also clear, and I must be drunk.
I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein
From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
Hope turns the wheels of tomorrow's good fortune." From the Ace of Cups in Tarot D'Amour" by K. & V. Daniels & Victor Daniaels
I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!
Es hilft unendlich viel zum Frieden, nicht auf den anderen zu warten, bis er kommt, sondern auf ihn zuzugehen."
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions; except for the ones you place upon yourself.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.
In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?
I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
