"I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance."

“Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

Source : Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.118, Egmont UK

“Part of courage is simple consistency.”

Source : "SC chair: Conservatism thrives" by Katon Dawson, www.politico.com. November 28, 2008.

“Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind of southern man, kind of the true heart of what it meant to be a Kiwi kind of farmer; very kind of outdoor man living off the land. That kind of thing, you don't see so much anymore these days with everyone being metrosexual and lattes and laptops.”

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

Source : "White Racism and Black Consciousness" (paper presented at workshop sponsored by Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies),Cape Town, South Africa, Jan. 1971

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

“[Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to "gag" him - I use the term specifically since one of my favorite sequences of his is entitled "The Poem Beneath The Gag."”

“No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.”