"Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good."

“For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.”

“What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.”

“The bicycle kick is not easy to do.”

“This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.”

“Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.”

“I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!”

Source : "Tom Daley's mum is VERY cool - she's paying for him to get a tattoo" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. May 23, 2012.

“There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am."”

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”