My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

Unless followed by the world 'education', has now lost this meaning [seeking knowledge or doing something for its own sake -- i.e. 'freely' with no exterior motive]. For that loss, so damanging to the whole of our cultural outlook, we must thank those who made it the name, first of a political, and then a religious, party. The same irresponsible rapacity, the desire to appropriate a word for its 'selling-power', has often done linguistic mischief. It is not easy now to say at all in English what the word would have said if it had not been 'cornered' by politicians. , , , and have been destroyed in the same way. Sometimes the arrogation is so outrageous that it fails; the Quakers have not killed the word . And sometimes so many different people grab at the coveted word for so many different groups or factions that, while it is spoiled for its original purpose, none of the grabbers achieve secure possession. is an example; it will probably end by being a term of eulogy as vague as .

C.S. Lewis

Life is supposed to get tough.

Kelsey Grammer

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Alveda King

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Niels Bohr

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Coco Chanel

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

Tallulah Bankhead

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Thomas A. Bennett

Work alone is noble.

Thomas Carlyle