Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

Edward R. Murrow

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.

Proverb

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

I well understand your doing this, said the notary. A man of science can't be expected to burden himself with the practical details of existence. Charles felt soothed by these oily words: they flattered his weakness, making it look like preoccupation with lofty things.

Gustave Flaubert

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Nikola Tesla

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Colin Quinn

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

William Shakespeare

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

Pliny the Elder

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Samuel Richardson

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Diane Abbott

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde