"Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections."

“My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.”

“So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.' 'Oh. Then. Nothing.' He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.”

“No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.”

“Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.”

Source : "Naima" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

“I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.”

Source : "Happiness Is a Choice". Book by Barry Neil Kaufman (p. 23), 1991.

“That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.”

“Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.”

Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

“Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.”