I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

E. L. Doctorow

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

Ray Bradbury

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander the Great

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Joseph Brodsky

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I love to spend money.

Roberto Cavalli

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and the world.

Helena Rubinstein

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

C.S. Lewis

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

Jon Meacham

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

Robert Frost