"Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside"."
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"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
"Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes."
"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
"A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue."
"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
"I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards."
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
"Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain."
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."
"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."
"If all you can do is crawl, start crawling."
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
"If you are still breathing, you have a second chance."
"I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise."
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."
"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."