A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

When the belly is empty the body becomes spirit and when it is full the spirit becomes body.

Keep belly lightly loaded if mind would wisdom see For bodies crammed to bursting make empty souls to be.

The rose and the thorn and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven it remains valueless.

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Before you are a leader success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader success is all about growing others.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.

My hands make me a little longer, and that's always a good thing.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

I've come to expect the jabs at Fox News - because, being a liberal, I get more than most.

I'm into short emails.

Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I see a lot of women around me who seem to stop developing as individuals after marriage and children. I don't know what kinds of pressure they're under, but I think it robs the world of 'the older version of Judy or Wendy,' or whomever. It robs the world of the next iteration of them, and I don't think that's right.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Fascism is itself less ideological in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his/her life wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

Damn everything but the circus.