Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.

Benjamin Whichcote

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Thomas Merton

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Kofi Annan

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Plautus

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

William Shakespeare

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.

Liam Neeson

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without a country, I am not a man.

Nawaf AlNasir AlSabah

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

John Green