Yes, it is harder to bear loneliness these days than it was before. . I'm in such a state that I don't even have to close my eyes to wander past and present with my thoughts.

He even whispered in my ear: You suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you.

You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?

What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.

Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace

Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad,...

The important thing was that we were alive...

This was 1941 and I'd been in prison eleven years. I was thirty-five. I'd spent the best years of my life either in a cell or in a black-hole. I'd only had seven months of total freedom with my Indian...

It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed, my escape had been a victory, merely by having enriched my heart with...

We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every...

I must prove that I can be, that I am and will be, a normal person. Perhaps no better, but certainly no worse than the rest.

I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: But who will guard these bandits? he answered: Worse bandits.

I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. Thought you weren't into internal pollution, I said. Lately Ranger'd been on a health food thing.Props,...

wed. Kareem would find it difficult to outwit

that the children of this generation have decayed with the ease of their lives, and that their great fortune has deprived them of any ambitions or real satisfactions.

to be valued and esteemed is beyond the expectation

lethargic with hopelessness

when a person wishes to be angry, as Noorah was demonstrating, there is little one can do. Before

Saudi Arabia does not belong to the al-Saud family. Saudi Arabia belongs to all its citizens.

It is much better to work with nonviolent activists, who take the time to set up appropriate organizations to work with citizens, rather than create violence in the hearts of men by refusing to allow...

The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived; he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana

Millions of people have become refugees and beggars when violent extremists have overthrown governments. Should this happen in Saudi Arabia, the first action taken would be to behead or burn to death...

Then there are unreasonable men who complain that simply knowing a sensual female is in the building is too distracting for them to work productively.

We have witnessed all around the Middle East the tragedies that occur when citizens of repressive governments become so frustrated that they turn to those who preach violence.

when change is needed and strongly desired by citizens, change will come, one way or another.

born with a book in her mouth.

I walked away, feeling the dejection keenly. I will always marvel that most powerful women do not make the lives of other women a priority in all things.

I have the tendency to be nervous at the sight of trouble looming. As the danger draws near, I become less nervous. When the peril is at hand, I swell with fierceness. As I grapple with my assailant,...

No human being has ever had the opportunity to select a family, country, or culture. I

I had never been to America and was anxious to form an opinion of the people who spread their culture worldwide, yet seemed to know so little of the world themselves. New