“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”

“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love… You can't own a human being.”

“Only through dialogue and exchanges and mutual respect can we promote goodwill and resolve the estrangement between the two sides of the strait.”

“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING
HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people
BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people”

“We are ready to enhance dialogue and exchanges with the U. S. side on the basis of mutual respect and equality to promote the world's cause of human rights.”

“There be three speciall notes necessary to be obserued in the framing of our accustomed English Ryme. The first is, that one meeter or verse be aunswerable to an other, in equall number of feete or syllables, or proportionable to the tune whereby it is to be reade or measured. The seconde, to place the words in such sorte as none of them be wrested contrary to the naturall inclination or affectation of the same, or more truely the true quantity thereof. The thyrd, to make them fall together mutually in Ryme, that is, in wordes of like sounde, but so as the wordes be not disordered for the Rymes sake, nor the sence hindered.”

“The cold pork in the fridge was wilting at the edges; it and I exchanged looks of mutual contempt, like two women wearing the same hat in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot.”

“The real alternative to being Number One is not being Number Two; it is dispensing with rankings altogether”

“Being Number Two Sucks.”

“You can't control what you can't measure”