Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Muhammad Yunus

The way to become boring is to say everything.

Voltaire

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

James A. Michener

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

David Vitter

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Kenneth Koch

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

Mahmoud Abbas

Overexposing my innards to careless hearts and hands is a practice I am prepared to stop performing.

Coco J. Ginger

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Barbara Sher

My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.

Maria de Villota

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Desmond Tutu