"It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally."

“Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.”

Source : "Fictional Character: Jenny". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

“Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.”

“The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.”

“History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.”

“Leading from your inner world ultimately produces better results in your leadership.”

Source : John Townsend (2011). “Leadership Beyond Reason: How Great Leaders Succeed by Harnessing the Power of Their Values, Feelings, and Intuition”, p.12, Thomas Nelson

“You can’t just want to die. You have to live it.”

“Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]”

“. . . people use tricks to get you to think the way they do or take away something you have that they want. One way they do that is to interrupt your normal way of thinking and take you by the hand and guide you down the path they want you to take. Father says they make you take a teeny-weeny step in their direction, and then they start to nudge you a little further down the path and before you know it, you're running full speed with them in a direction that you probably wouldn't have gone alone.”