We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Paulo Coelho

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

Walter Benjamin

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Ellen Glasgow

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

Bruno Tonioli

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Oscar Wilde

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Sargent Shriver

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Louisa May Alcott

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Henri Matisse