"The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it."

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.”

Source : Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet

“Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.”

“I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.”

“She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.”

“How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.”

“A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.”

“If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.”