Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and mos….

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords..

Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceiv….

Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not….

Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to m….

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triu….

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me..

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your de….

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest..

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationshi….

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people..

Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-dea….

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone..

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true….

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us..

As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with..

Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy..

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn..

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs..

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a f….

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almos….