Most people who fall obsessively in love claim that it happens precipitously, unexpectedly [...]But I believe there's almost always a prerequisite. Falling in love in this way will usually occur at a time of transition. We may not be conscious of it, but something has ended and something new must begin. Romantic obsession is like a cataclysm breaking up the empty landscape. Like a strange exotic plant, it grows in arid soil. (pp. 27-28)

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.

William Hazlitt

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Andre Maurois

There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.

John R. Allen

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

J.K. Rowling

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hosea Ballou

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Sean O'Casey

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

Phil Collins

Truth never hurts the teller.

Robert Browning

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

John Adams

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Park Geun-hye