I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

Edward H. Harriman

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

Tucker Carlson

Patience and hope are indispensable for the success of any idea or plan.

on behalf of Shoghi Effendi

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Georges Bataille

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Edward T. Hall

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

John Berger

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Richard J. Daley

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

Drew Barrymore

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

Samuel Johnson

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard