One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Imelda Marcos

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harriet Tubman

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Stephen King

We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.

Virginia Woolf

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Muqtada al Sadr

Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Ambrose Bierce

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles Spurgeon

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

Robert Reich

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Angela Carter

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein