"Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water."

“All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you”

Source : "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Documentary Wins Oscar". tribune.com.pk. February 27, 2012.

“Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.”

“The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.”

“I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.”

Source : "'How did I end up becoming a novelist?'" by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

“It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.”

“From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.”

“I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.”

“No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.”

Source : Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct