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Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.

Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.

They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type. And all were distinctively “scientists” of the period. Formerly this would have implied a rather uncritical leaning towards materialism, and an affectation of cynicism; but by now it was fashionable to profess an equally uncritical belief that all natural phenomena were manifestations of the cosmic mind. In both periods, when a man passed beyond the sphere of his own serious scientific work he chose his beliefs irresponsibly, according to his taste, much as he chose his recreation or his food.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places.

Even seemingly trivial decisions deplete us.

The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.

Read fiction to open your mind to greater possibilities and read non-fiction to learn the constraints of dreams and the facts that might guide you to attain one.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.

With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.