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

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Jerome Lawrence

Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.

Benjamin Franklin

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

C.S. Lewis

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Barack Obama

Many have too much, but none enough.

Danish proverb

Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.

Oscar Wilde

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.

Jarod Kintz

Criticism always follows worthwhile action. The opposite is seldom true.

Torley Wong

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Jean Rostand