"Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal."

“If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.”

Source : "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.

“When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.”

“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”

“Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.”

Source : Source: www.32poems.com

“Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.”

“It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.”

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”