“A person can vanish from the world, but their ideas can keep breathing in the minds of others.”

“An hour of boredom can feel like a day. An hour of joy can vanish in a heartbeat.”

“You think you chose me. But in my mind, I chose you too.”

“It’s just paper — until we agree it’s worth everything.”

“Corruption isn’t born in a parliament hall or a corporate boardroom — it’s born in the human mind, long before the opportunity arrives.”

“It’s not always the big disasters that set us off — sometimes it’s the tiny spark that lights the fuse.”

“Some people make us stand a little straighter, speak a little softer — and others make us want to repay them, even if they never asked.”

“It wasn’t pain that bothered me — it was the feeling that my own body had its own agenda.”