Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I’d been kissed before. Many times. There were awkward and sloppy kisses, those tension-fraught moments of fumbling intensity as a teenager. There were more skilled kisses, passionate and intentional. There were kisses that stole my...

Even if things aren’t going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.

Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry...

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice – if not whether, then how, they may endure.

I had been able to break the curse myself. I’d had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men”.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely…change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am...

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you’re doing.

Fate, up against your will.

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow...

Hanya dengan kerja keras dan keinginan kuat untuk berbuat yang terbaik dalam setiap bentuk pengabdian, kita bersama dengan komponen bangsa lainnya dapat menjadi patriot-patriot yang mampu membawa Indonesia ke arah yang lebih baik, lebih maju,...

We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.