I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Walter Scott

That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart.

Faraaz Kazi

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Vladimir Kramnik

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

Martin Luther King Jr.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard Feynman

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

Petra Nemcova

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Harold Pinter

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Eden Ahbez

Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.

Marlene Dietrich, 1962