-
“You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.”
-
“God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.”
-
“I'd rather be a victor than a victim.”
-
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”
Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011
-
“Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.”
-
“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”
Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
-
“I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.”
Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
-
“As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.”