My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Waylon Jennings

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

Joe Barton

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

William Kingdon Clifford

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Joseph Roux

take out the best, take care the rest.

Toge Aprilianto

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

James Dyson

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Thomas Francis Meagher

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein