Women move through the world never knowing their power.
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
There is no wrong time to do the right thing.
The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.