I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Azar Nafisi

Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.

Arabic Proverb

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Margaret Cho

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Harper Lee

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Mary Schmich

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierceInto the heights of love's rare universe,Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychid

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.

Andrew Shue

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Demosthenes