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“It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.”
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“Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.”
Source : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”
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“Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.”
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“It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.”
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“Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.”
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“I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.”
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“Just because people are calling you skinny doesn't mean I'm like, 'Yay!' No! You're telling me I don't look right. This is me, this is my body - I have accepted it.”
Source : "'90210' star defends her slender frame". People magazine interview, www.today.com. November 27, 2008. 
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“For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.”
