"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

The stories of our people are the stories of the land, and they are one and the same.

The key to successful trading is to know yourself.